How to Use abate in a Sentence

abate

verb
Definition of abatenext
Synonyms for abatenext
  • We waited for the wind to abate.
  • There are some signs that the chip shortage will abate by the end of the summer.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 June 2021
  • As night fell, the crowd’s anger showed no signs of abating.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The protests and anger across France seem unlikely to abate in the weeks ahead.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • There are no signs that trend will abate any time soon.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Tonight: Mainly clear skies and calm winds allow the heat to abate.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
  • The good news, experts say, is that the chip shortage should abate sometime in the next six to 18 months.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
  • Plague would spread, then abate, only to flare up again.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • In wealthy Europe, though, the church’s woes show few signs of abating.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 May 2018
  • But the primary war with the Houthis shows no signs of abating.
    — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And this means the war in Afghanistan is unlikely to abate anytime soon.
    — Asfandyar Mir, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Shouldn’t be as ugly as some, but the pain won’t abate anytime soon.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile the pace and pressure of my life showed no signs of abating.
    — Adriana Velez, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And those forces, in turn, help to drive or abate global warming.
    — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Two years on and the conflict in Yemen shows little signs of abating.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 31 May 2017
  • After the smoke abated, the TV footage showed a large hole left behind.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The surge has been expensive, and shows no signs of abating.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a joy that comes with seeing that stuff that hasn’t abated at all.
    — Daniel D’addario, Time, 11 July 2017
  • And the risk of spreading the virus days after symptoms have abated is low.
    — Ashish K. Jha, STAT, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Yet the war that has blocked those grain shipments for almost five months did not abate.
    — Susie Blann, ajc, 22 July 2022
  • Trends that, as of right now, have abated and even reversed.
    — Galen Druke, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Boarded up in a safe room, my freeze response didn’t abate.
    — Kyle Casey Chu, Vogue, 1 July 2022
  • As the backlog of permits is worked through, these challenges should abate.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Six years have passed, but the pain has not abated, the anger has not softened and the outrage is still real.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Police post that the zone will be abated, and then clear out campers 10 days later.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
  • But both sources of energy are fickle: winds abate; clouds block the sun.
    — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
  • And for most of the two years that followed, that uncertainty would not abate.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The rivalry feelings haven't abated in the years since.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The bill has since been shelved, but the uproar stoked a wider civil unrest that shows no sign of abating.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
  • But where the fighting has abated, things are looking up.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018

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