Sample Sentences for
abound
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    Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.  (source)
    abounding = abundant or plentiful
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    Theories abound, each one less likely than the one before.†  (source)
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    The message repeats, and groans and eye-rolling abound.†  (source)
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    Skunks abound, and foxes and coyotes and wolves and weasels—all predators.†  (source)
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    Most cases of sabotage were not reported in our controlled press, but rumors abounded.†  (source)
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    They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.†  (source)
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    A farm abounds with poisons, though not many of them are fast-acting.†  (source)
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    29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She aboundeth" in older English, today we say "She abounds."
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    How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire—by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be—what the White Whale was to them, or how to their unconscious understandings, also, in some dim, unsuspected way, he might have seemed the gliding great demon of the seas of life,—all this to explain, would be to dive deeper than Ishmael can go.†  (source)
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    But on the other hand: 'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.'†  (source)
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    It was wonderful place to hunt as it abounded with game.†  (source)
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    His pity was moved, but nevertheless he felt an abounding sense of relief and security, now, which revealed to him in a degree which he had not fully appreciated before how vast a weight of dread had been lying upon him since the day he lifted his voice against this bloody-minded outcast.†  (source)
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    Suspicion abounds.†  (source)
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