abeyant

Example Sentences

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Touring the pits with Ahlum was like visiting the abeyant ghosts of my childhood.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2019

We stood, abeyant, ready to receive what shock fate should administer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"What do you think of it, Mrs. Stager?" she called to the woman standing respectfully abeyant at one side.

From Fennel and Rue by Howells, William Dean

He was what was called at Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Peerages of Ireland, extinct and abeyant, alphabetically, according to Titles.

From Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of