English vocabulary examples in context: abate
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 1.
The wind became calm, the waves abated, and the next day the breeze veered to the north-west.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 2.
There was no doubt that these unfortunate fellows had perished, because we called them in vain, and in vain we sought for them, when the fog abated, along the sides of the iceberg, at every place where they might have been able to catch on to a projection.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 3.
When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 4.
Indeed, for all Chichikov's storming and raging as he dubbed the fellows robbers and extortioners and thieves, he could make no impression upon the pair, since, true to their character, they declined to abate their prices, and, even when they had begun their work, spent upon it, not two hours, but five and a half.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 5.
In short, the place soon became a babel of shouts and squeals, and, after watching and listening for a time, the barin found it so impossible to concentrate his mind upon anything that he sent out word that the noise would have to be abated.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 6.
It has done nothing but rain all summer; the wind irritates me; the wind does not abate.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 7.
The storm did not abate, and neither Jonathan Forster nor his companions dreamed of confronting it in that frail car.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 8.
The temperature fell a little, and the tempest abated.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 9.
Herbert returned to life, and his fever abated.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 10.
Thank God, the first shock of things has abated, now that you have agreed not to look upon me as faithless and an egotist simply because I have deceived you.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 11.
On February 10th, the wind from the northeast, which, till then, had always succeeded those long and overwhelming calms, during which the 'Pilgrim' was stationary, began to abate perceptibly.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 12.
I know, at last, where the tempest has blown us, and, if it abates, we shall be able to land on the American continent with some chance of safety.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 13.
However, he abated nothing from the amount of the ransom, which his prisoner did not even discuss.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 14.
We must lie still, in the calm harbor, till the storm should abate.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 15.
As far as I am privately concerned, I abate not a jot of the original assertion that in those strangely magnifying waters one may count the scales on a trout (a trout of the large kind,) at a depth of a hundred and eighty feet--may see every pebble on the bottom--might even count a paper of dray-pins.
Vocabulary in context: abate -- Example 16.
I abate not a single boot-jack.
