How to Use abstraction in a Sentence

abstraction

noun

• She gazed out the window in abstraction.
• But Lawrence yields only so much to the prevailing taste for abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• At a certain level of abstraction, this answer is correct.
  — William Levin, National Review, 11 Dec. 2020
• There can be no abstraction of this woman, no distancing of physical facts.
  — Dallas News, 11 Dec. 2020
• Though its absence or presence affects weather all over the globe, northern sea ice is an abstraction for most people.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2020
• If messages aren't concrete and don't include stories, our powerful sense-making brains will fill the abstraction with stories and ideas that make sense to us.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2020
• If messages aren’t concrete and don’t include stories, our powerful sense-making brains will fill the abstraction with stories and ideas that make sense to us.
  — Ann Christiano, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
• The image of it approached total abstraction, almost became beautiful.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Modotti’s is a modernist abstraction—a constellation of hats and backs—while in Lange’s there is a deep, desolate intimacy: the hands, the cup.
  — Valeria Luiselli, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• This is because our capacity to be hurt or feel weak takes us out of the realm of abstraction—the stuff on which so much theory is based—and into the unruly complexity of human connection.
  — Elissa Strauss, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2024
• For young children, who do not generally experience the world through a metalanguage of explanations and abstractions, this is even more apparent.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
• And they were made in the 1960s, a time when abstraction reigned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• The idea of colds as a little trial for the soul is an abstraction.
  — Addison Del Mastro, The Week, 16 Feb. 2022
• These make sense in the world they're set in, with little abstraction.
  — Chuong Nguyen and Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• For most of us, the intense drought that is gripping most of the state is an abstraction.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2021
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed - from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed — from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• As a measure of time, a year can seem like an abstraction.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2020
• American art was swept up in the post-war rage for abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• The effects of climate change are no longer an abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Maryland native varies the view with close-ups of water and plants, some of which approach abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• The abstraction of genre is stripped away to favor the fight-or-flight behavior that slasher movies try to capture in the first place.
  — Wired, 10 July 2022
• In those moments, his words seemed like an abstraction.
  — Chris Megerian, Vanessa Gera and Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
• The experts are too deep in the weeds, while policy makers seem lost in abstractions.
  — Yuval Levin, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
• The paintings run the gamut of abstraction, from moody to exuberant.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Af Klint, for those keeping score, seems to have beaten Kandinsky to the punch of modern abstraction by five years.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Drawn to abstraction, Villa had a fair amount of success early on.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• The move over the previous decade from abstraction to figuration among the avant-garde.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• The installation’s skein of lines might thus be read as mere abstraction, like a Jackson Pollock on the grass.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction.
  — Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024