English vocabulary examples in context: abortive
Vocabulary in context: abortive -- Example 1.
He was unused to receiving visitors, and for the moment conceived the new arrival to be a Government official, sent to question him concerning an abortive society to which he had formerly belonged.
Vocabulary in context: abortive -- Example 2.
By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
Vocabulary in context: abortive -- Example 3.
He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.
