abound

in a sentence

Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Well, Fatima's may have been shuttered, reflected the Count, but weren't the flower shops of Paris shuttered under the "reign" of Robespierre, and didn't that city now abound in blossoms?†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Now I live in one where opportunities abound for the wealthy and privileged to shower their generosity on the community's poor.†  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

Surely this religion had more than one story in its bag—religions abound with stories.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Flowers abounded, and the air was filled with singing birds.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects.†  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

A farm abounds with poisons, though not many of them are fast-acting.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.†  (source) The Bible, Old Testament, 1611

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) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

Rumours abound, of course, that Albus Dumbledore, once Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, is no longer up to the task of managing the prestigious school of Hogwarts.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

Countless rumors of treachery abounded, although with no autopsy, none was ever confirmed.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

") Oil the cover of the second notebook, the handwriting of which he was so proud, a script abounding in curly, feminine flourishes, proclaimed the contents to be "The Private Diary of Perry Edward Smith"—an inaccurate description, for it was not in the least a diary but, rather, a form of anthology consisting of obscure facts ("Every fifteen years Mars gets closer.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

Suspicion abounds.†  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952