How to Use abiding in a Sentence

abiding

adjective
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  • I have an abiding interest in animal welfare—it's not just a phase I'm going through.
  • Naming this reality is politically contentious, even as a consensus has formed about the abiding and severe inequalities that define it.
    — Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Even babies too young to talk tune in, in a deep and abiding way, when they are held and read to.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Even babies too young to talk with tune in, in a deep and abiding way, when they are held and read to.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • That is a potent charge in a country with an abiding fear of Russia.
    — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This is an abiding complaint among young men in a country with a surfeit of them.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
  • That’s the deep and abiding issue and disconnect — that there is nothing to say.
    — Olivia Nuzzi, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Who among us doesn’t harbor an abiding love for Nicolas Cage?
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The two share a long and abiding respect for each other, perhaps even friendship.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
  • Deeper still, whether Jupiter has a solid core is an abiding mystery — one that the Juno spacecraft has been tasked to solve.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2017
  • When Wednesday began, Josh James was at least one of the answers to the Astros’ most abiding question.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019
  • With all its abiding flaws, liberalism offered a way out for those who didn’t conform to the demands of the clan.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Its abiding theme is the richness of friendship, an abundance more profound than anything under the tree.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Her boss's abiding strategy is to double down and admit no wrong.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
  • One of this nation’s most abiding myths is that social origins don’t matter.
    — Claire Messud, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
  • Several designers were quick to pay homage to Mr. Bowie’s unique and abiding power over the British fashion industry in the last four decades.
    — Elizabeth Paton and Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Here’s a very 2019 way to think about his abiding influence: Without Conan, there’s possibly no Game of Thrones.
    — John J. Miller, National Review, 11 July 2019
  • The abiding theme of the book is that almost every influential figure in the Party has come to accept or submit to the President.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
  • Yet my efforts were untethered to anything deep or abiding.
    — Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
  • James Vick ran a hugely successful seed business in Rochester, New York, in the mid-nineteenth century driven by an abiding love of flowers, and the desire to spread that love.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • His appreciation of New Orleans is informed by a deep and abiding respect for the elders who came before him.
    — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Nobody much until now has taken seriously the idea that the 45th president is a man of deep and abiding faith who is just misconstrued as a heathen.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 14 July 2017
  • And for feeling, as well, that an abiding sense of gratitude on this particular Thanksgiving may be elusive to achieve.
    — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
  • There's family tragedy, struggle with drugs and deep poverty, but there's also children with a plucky spirit, adults who grapple for purchase against all odds and an abiding love that will stay with you for a long time.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
  • That was obviously wrong, unless the puzzle turns out to be a rebus and Mr. Magoo developed a sudden and abiding interest in arks.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Andrew’s relationships with his mother (Leslie Mann) is deep and abiding — and a bit complicated.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • And the tone turns surreal in the climax when the elegance of a museum gala is torn to tatters by a primitive force that has nothing to do with brutalist art (though a lot to do with the abiding influence of Luis Buñuel ).
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The fascistic hyper-patriotism now pumped out by the Kremlin’s TV studios is but the latest version of an abiding claim to superiority over the West.
    — Daniel Beer, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Among the many factors that led to Trump’s unexpected victory last November was a deep and abiding skepticism among many voters about the wisdom of experts.
    — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
  • That enduring popularity speaks to the way the game taps into deep and abiding strains of dominant American culture.
    — James Surowiecki, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019

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