How to Use abjure in a Sentence

abjure

verb

• The potential to abjure the will of the people in order to advance a partisan agenda seems vast.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022
• His new book, Because Our Fathers Lied, is a valiant and abrasive attempt to sift through a legacy his father refused to abjure.
  — Noah Kulwin, The New Republic, 6 July 2022
• Sinema gets permission to hide from the press and abjure her constituents in part because she has been given the centrist/moderate stamp of approval.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
• Passionately denouncing the inequity of his time, Francis of Assisi abjured his wealth and joined the beggars.
  — Karen Armstrong, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• But even in less dire cases, to abjure concern for one’s health — let alone to encourage others to do so — is deeply irresponsible.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
• Riders abjure helmets, and a strict rule that two people may never share one scooter is strictly ignored throughout.
  — Alan Behr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• That did not mean abjuring love as a subject, but rather ennobling it while understanding its limitations.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• On the other hand, the policy exempts parody and satire, which would seem to require precisely the kind of interpretive judgment that the company abjures to the point of outsourcing fact-checking to third parties.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 7 Jan. 2020
• Nobody is forcing him to abjure press conferences or any other interaction with journalists where he may be asked tough questions.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• In short, the administration would be betting on budget hawks abjuring their principles.
  — Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 26 June 2017
• Taking the oath to absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure my homeland was more terrifying.
  — Jakki Kerubo, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• That trenchant rhyme is an outlier among Mr. Cale’s lyrics, which generally abjure technical polish in favor of imagery and emotion.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2019
• After Spain passed a law banning parties that supported terrorism, some of the group’s leaders created a new party, EH Bildu, which abjured violence.
  — The Economist, 9 May 2018
• Where the commercial fishery runs on the acquisition of fish for private profiit, the subsistence is part of an indigenous economy that abjures hoarding and celebrates the sharing of a bounty whose creatures are assigned both intelligence and souls.
  — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• Most dramatically, Lara meets an artist unlike the others — a German Dadaist who has abjured silly painterly posturing for serious aesthetic discipline (and sculpture).
  — Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2019
• Thankfully, few proponents of normcore politics explicitly go as far as Wittes in exhorting Trump’s opponents to abjure conventional policy issues.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 3 July 2018
• Generally, Majumdar abjures commentary and interior analysis in favor of incident, the decisive ramifications of action.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024