How to Use aborted in a Sentence

aborted

adjective
  • The Alaska crew reported the plane's tires blew during the aborted takeoff, according to the FAA.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Moreno also would be smart to address the aborted sale of the team.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The clogged holes were found after the aborted launch of a GPS satellite on Oct. 2.
    Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • And then the picture of the aborted fetus kind of is the capper detail of the whole thing.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The act says that both parents would need to agree on what to do with the remains of an aborted fetus.
    Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 11 July 2017
  • In New York City, there were more aborted Black babies than were born last year.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • After its aborted takeoff, the plane returned to the gate.
    Alison Sider, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The aborted mutiny against Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia could have consequences that span the globe.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 June 2023
  • Boddy had an aborted 2020 spring training and not even a full year this year to do what he was hired to do.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In one case the seal of a doorway failed, forcing an aborted mission.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The Buccaneers ran seven plays in the red zone, the first being an aborted snap for Brady.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • This is what happened during the company's first, aborted launch to the ISS in 2010.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2016
  • The aborted mission comes almost 50 years to the day that Apollo 11 launched its historic feat to put the first human on the moon.
    Helen Regan and Manveena Suri, CNN, 14 July 2019
  • They were told that some of the contestants from the aborted season would not return.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2017
  • If Breen had seen a gas station the night of his aborted escape, the course of his life might have been different.
    David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Rudock bobbled his first hold of the game, an aborted extra-point attempt.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2017
  • But some of the cell lines used to test vaccines in the lab include cells derived from aborted fetuses.
    Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Played third base and center field for the first time since he was tried there as an aborted experiment in 1981.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • In the first quarter, Watt had what looked like a strip-sack negated when it was ruled Huntley had an aborted snap and a fumble.
    Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • That divide ranges from aborted projects to lethal fires to midair explosions.
    Carie Lemack, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • Darkseid wasn't in the theatrical cut at all, as he was being set up as the villain for the aborted Justice League 2.
    James Hibberd, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The vaccine was developed in the 1960s by using the cells of two aborted fetuses.
    Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
  • The second baseman on a Bruins team that finished the aborted season with the nation’s No.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Tomas scored on a pair of long touchdown catches and picked up a key first down an aborted punt as the host Warriors held off Brother Rice 33-25.
    Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Boise State has moved conferences twice in that span, not including the aborted Big East move.
    Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018
  • That’s where the B-17 crashed and burned Wednesday in an aborted takeoff attempt that led to disaster.
    Jerry Fallstrom, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The state also said the vaccines don’t contain aborted fetal cells.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In briefs Wednesday, James said that the vaccines do not contain aborted fetal cells.
    Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
  • In some instances, such as the aborted merger with Fiat Chrysler in 2019, the Nissan link has appeared to be a brake on bold thinking.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • But the company said later the failure was the result of a liquid oxygen propellant leak and that the stage survived the aborted engine firing.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 12 July 2024

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