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Abominable in sentence

120 examples of Abominable in a sentence

Shrill voices saluted with curses the abominable trophy.
Abbé Ranvier went so far as to defend these abominable brigands who had dishonoured the district.
What an abominable thing it is for poor devils to kill each other for the sake of the rich!
" And the violence did not cease, the outstretched fists, the abominable words, the shovelfuls of accusations and threats which buffeted their faces.
But she soon understood that it was the flood of puberty, which was at last breaking out in the shock of this abominable day.
What an abominable forgetfulness of old services!
They did not know, they stammered; they shuddered terribly, and made gestures like madmen, gestures which seemed to be pushing away some abominable vision which was always present to them.
His lamp, drowned in dampness, was going out, and, touching with his fingers, he clearly recognized the marks of the saw and of the wimble--the whole abominable labour of destruction.
How far ought they to flee to reach shelter at the end of this abominable day, beneath this leaden cloud which also seemed about to crush the earth?
"Abominable indeed," I replied, "and hardly suitable for a craft like the Nautilus."
"Abominable, Ned my friend," Conseil replied.
"Indeed," I said, "this sea is mentioned as one of the worst, and in the days of the ancients, if I'm not mistaken, it had an abominable reputation."
"Thoroughly abominable, Professor Aronnax.
He sets down a young swell who had seduced a working girl, who at the ending—""Certainly," continued Homais, "there is bad literature as there is bad pharmacy, but to condemn in a lump the most important of the fine arts seems to me a stupidity, a Gothic idea, worthy of the abominable times that imprisoned Galileo."
Despite Emma's explanations, as soon as the recitative duet began in which Gilbert lays bare his abominable machinations to his master Ashton, Charles, seeing the false troth-ring that is to deceive Lucie, thought it was a love-gift sent by Edgar.
madame!" cried Felicite, running in, "it's abominable!"
And no doubt she was suggesting something abominable to him; for the tax-collector—yet he was brave, had fought at Bautzen and at Lutzen, had been through the French campaign, and had even been recommended for the cross—suddenly, as at the sight of a serpent, recoiled as far as he could from her, crying—"Madame!
'That is not enough for me, Sir,' Julien went on, beside himself with rage; 'think of the abominable things you said to me, and in the presence of ladies, too!'M. de Renal was only too well aware of what Julien was asking, and conflicting passions did battle in his heart.
Each hour of this abominable life seems to me to last a day.'
'Will he be pleased with me?''This little peasant upon whom we have lavished every attention, including presents, may be innocent,' she said at length, 'but he is none the less the occasion of the first insult I have ever received ...Sir, when I read that abominable document, I vowed that either he or I should leave your roof.''Do you wish to create a scandal that will dishonour me and yourself as well?
This lady, apparently so conscious of the joy of ownership, had just made an abominable scene, during dinner, with a servant who had broken a wineglass and spoiled one of her sets; and the servant had answered her with the most gross insolence.
I am running away from the abominable life one leads in the country.
But when Julien, who at the moment was listening, with lowered gaze, to the lamentations of a Bishop, was free to move, and able to join his friend, he found him monopolised by that abominable young Tanbeau.
Why!M. de La Mole and Comte Norbert, the only people who ever show their faces here, are absent almost all day; it is easy to watch for the moment of their return to the house, and the sublime Mathilde, for whose hand a Sovereign Prince would not be too noble, wishes me to commit an act of abominable imprudence!
Here, what abominable tales will they not bandy about in the drawing-rooms of the Hotel de Chaulnes, the Hotel de Caylus, the Hotel de Retz, and in short everywhere?
'But,' he said to himself one evening, 'here I am transcribing the fifteenth of these abominable dissertations; the first fourteen have been faithfully delivered to the Marechale's Swiss.
'On your life, Sir,' cried Julien beside himself with rage, 'bear in mind never again to utter that abominable falsehood.'
'He will punish me in some abominable manner ...'But if I meet the God of Fenelon!
His history was abominable.
If ever I had a grain of true repentance for a vicious and abominable life for twenty-four years past, it was then.
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