How to Use abolition in a Sentence

abolition

noun

• The second must-do is the abolition of the debt ceiling.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Think of the role the churches played on the abolition issue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• This week reminds us that the road to abolition does not run in a straight line.
  — Brian Stull, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers’ rights.
  — Russ Bynum, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• The game was facing strong criticism and even the threat of abolition.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
• This process continued until the abolition of slave trade in the 1900s.
  — Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
• To be clear, the death of police officers is not what abolition is.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022
• There have been calls in recent years for prison abolition.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• Some favor not only the abolition of bail, but of prisons and the police.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• But there’s a long tradition at TNR of urging the abolition of the monarchy—and even advising Charles to be the one to do the deed.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Today this is no longer the case—the prison abolition movement has gone mainstream.
  — Michelle Kuo, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• Now our demands include the repeal of Promesa and the abolition of the fiscal board.
  — Michael Deibert, Fortune, 25 July 2019
• To say that the abolition of the Affordable Care Act somehow equals the end of democracy is the wrong way of framing things.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
• Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
• Why not force Joe Biden to take a clear stance on filibuster abolition?
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
• With the abolition of the Paramount decrees, the court has opened the door for history to repeat itself.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The girl’s death intensified a debate in England over the abolition of the slave trade.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• Reuben is careful not to take a stand on abolition himself.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
• As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023
• This would nevertheless be a long way short of the schools’ abolition.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• In fact, Hamilton threw away his shot to take a stand on abolition early and often.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
• It was founded in 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War and abolition of slavery.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020
• The amendment was the official abolition of slavery in the United States.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• Bass was born in South Carolina in 1874, less than a decade after the abolition of slavery.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020
• The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2022
• In 2021, its representatives called for the full abolition of the law.
  — Javier Bastardo, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• In 2009, lawmakers ratified the U.N.’s two covenants on human rights, one of which calls for the abolition of the death penalty.
  — Yian Lee / Bloomberg, TIME, 20 Sep. 2024
• Become a wealthy slave owner or achieve the abolition of slavery.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Indeed, Buckley argued, the practice delayed the abolition of slavery in Britain and its colonies.
  — Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025