How to Use aberration in a Sentence

aberration

noun

• For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration.
• The goal proved to be an aberration, as Minnesota kept control of the ball.
  — Juan Pimiento, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• The neo-Nazis, too, are less aberrations than opportunists.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2018
• The company was a bad actor, an aberration, that Facebook had to deal with.
  — Jason Tanz, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• Those two huge bass were not aberrations as the dozens of heavyweight largemouths landed from Texas lakes over the last two weeks attest.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
• So to be clearer, the Railsplitters’ recent run isn’t an aberration.
  — Aaron Carter, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• If this can be achieved, future generations may look back on the era of vehicles driven by humans as an aberration.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The 2016 tournament, when the top four reached the semifinals, was an aberration in recent years.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2018
• But Sinclair’s anti-media promos are hardly an aberration.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 3 Apr. 2018
• There are times when an irrational and massive aberration in human history — mass circumcision — needs to be subjected to reason.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• The soul-crushing void of solitary confinement and the constant threat of inmate-on-inmate violence appear not as aberrations but as tools on which the system tacitly relies.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
• The only aberration was their 1-0 loss away to Newcastle United in February.
  — SI.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Much of the world hopes 2020 was an aberration, not a trend.
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• If the dogs’ paws have any aberrations or cuts, the salts will burn.
  — John Surico, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• And all of these things are a trend, not a one-game aberration.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Was that last Hawkeyes win an aberration from the three-point line?
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
• The data over the past month shows that’s not an aberration.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2020
• The Bears have to hope that was more of an aberration than anything else.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• To be a two-time All-Star says last year wasn't an aberration.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• This is their chance to prove that game wasn’t an aberration.
  — Ryan Connors, ajc, 8 Sep. 2017
• Whether this was an aberration or the norm remains to be seen.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• Is this an aberration or the start of an alarming trend?
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2020
• The omens are good, and Democrats have reason to hope that 2016 was just an aberration.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
• Was this bigger role a one-game aberration or a sign of things to come?
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• Aside from the aberration that was the 70s, it's been that way forever.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2018
• The tracking of the Wildfire charges were not an aberration.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• The Dodgers had reason to hope Bellinger’s 2021 was an aberration.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Is this a late-life aberration, or can the tropism be traced to a deeper angst that was missed in its time?
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• The hope is that Sunday’s success was a sign of things to come, and not just an aberration.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• The West needs to resist the temptation to regard the aggression against Ukraine as an aberration rather than a trend.
  — Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024