How To Use abeyance In A Sentence
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.
- But since it is rare in any book aimed at children to see a discussion of economics, let alone imperialism and militarism, that criticism might be held in abeyance.
- It was held in abeyance last year, as no candidate was considered sufficiently unoriginal. The Times Literary Supplement
- Although repeated again and again this pledge has fallen into abeyance in the post-colonial era.
- The Basqueness that is in abeyance in Biarritz returns in full as you drive south from there towards the frontier.
- So to be more precise, one of the most difficult unsolved problems in American constitutionalism – perhaps a constitutional “abeyance” or silence – is what a president is supposed to do with an act (presumably passed over a veto) that directly encroaches on presidential power. Balkinization
- Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature, currently in abeyance in Nature itself but being published each month in Nature's monthly sister title, Nature Physics. Writing
- Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June.
- Like the younger nurse, she was much given to smiling: like her, the smile was in temporary abeyance. SAN ANDREAS
