How to Use abide in a Sentence

abide

verb
  • Well, there are researchers and others that believe that software developers should have to abide by a strict code of ethics.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • But Ukraine also must abide by the international rules of the battlefield.
    Richard Lardner, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
  • However, holders must abide by immigration and overstay rules.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 24 June 2022
  • People who bring firearms are asked to abide by the rules, which means no ammunition, bring the firearms unloaded and in a secure bag placed in your trunk, and have the cylinder or action open.
    Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2022
  • They felt affronted by companies like Uber that were refusing to abide by even modest regulations.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Indonesia's Home Affairs Ministry said the government would abide by the court ruling.
    Reuters, CNN, 30 June 2022
  • Most systems that could have provided high-quality, at-home care simply didn’t have the resources to abide by pre-pandemic regulations.
    Stephen Parodi and Ceci Connolly, STAT, 18 July 2022
  • Though Tyler’s Law went into effect in 2020, this year will be the first time state fair rides will have to abide by the new regulations.
    cleveland, 25 July 2022
  • Kern County and state officials failed to abide by that federal mandate, McCoy alleged.
    Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
  • Sullivan, who has known Biden and his penchant for physical contact for years, acknowledged the president may struggle to abide by the new guidance.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • The family has argued that the system running the nursing home set policies and procedures for their staff to abide by that led to Garcia’s death, Mooney said.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
  • The odds are that a portion of people who are abiding by this latest flash-in-the-pan social media decree will consult generative AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Does the company abide by the toughest security and encryption protocols?
    Anthony Capone, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Instead, both the inability to abide by the norms which bind everyone else and the casual and foolish falsehood which followed speak to flaws in Johnson's makeup.
    Rosa Prince, CNN, 7 July 2022
  • But the state attorney general said the ruling will be for naught unless the schools are willing to abide by the same antidiscrimination law as other private schools that participate in the program.
    CBS News, 25 June 2022
  • However, the commission was still required to abide by a February ruling ordering them to produce a constitutional map.
    cleveland, 29 June 2022
  • But the Dude was fun, the Dude had a sharp tongue, the Dude abided.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • What is the moral duty of the CFOs here to abide by that rule?
    WSJ, 18 June 2017
  • The very first of the five stages of grief is denial; we are not meant to abide there.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The event will abide by the state’s masking guidelines.
    oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Many abided in the ovaries for most of the rodents’ lives.
    science.org, 3 July 2024
  • The Warriors have no choice but to abide by the same message.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The judge makes a ruling and both sides are supposed to abide by it.
    Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2021
  • In the story, the parents abide by the terms of the experiment.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • But this is not a tour that comes even close to abiding on sound alone.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Servers in each section will abide by the same policies.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Clubs that don’t abide by the new rules could still be hit by the 10 p.m. early closing time.
    Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The team refused to abide by the new rules and were expelled from the National League at the end of the season.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But the deputies have the authority to cite people who do not abide by the rules.
    Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • This stat alone is proof of the no-win norm that we, as a society, have been groomed to abide by.
    Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 23 Jan. 2021

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