How to Use aborted in a Sentence

aborted

adjective
  • There have been too many aborted film projects since to round up here.
    — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In one case the seal of a doorway failed, forcing an aborted mission.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
  • That divide ranges from aborted projects to lethal fires to midair explosions.
    — Carie Lemack, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • The act says that both parents would need to agree on what to do with the remains of an aborted fetus.
    — Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 11 July 2017
  • They were told that some of the contestants from the aborted season would not return.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2017
  • This is Hague’s third launch, although his first was an aborted Soyuz mission.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 July 2026
  • In reality, most airline credits last far less than a year from the date of your aborted trip.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2018
  • But some of the cell lines used to test vaccines in the lab include cells derived from aborted fetuses.
    — Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • There are no aborted fetal cells or tissue in any of the coronavirus vaccines.
    — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
  • This is an aborted prototype that was rushed onto the market for rich suckers.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • If not, the resulting damage could lead to an abrupt engine shutdown and aborted flight.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Four years after the aborted dinosaur auction, the world is a very different place.
    — Will Harris, EW.com, 27 June 2025
  • But the two telecoms seem to think that, despite some aborted attempts, their time has finally come.
    — Colin Lecher, The Verge, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Prigozhin died months after the aborted rebellion when his plane exploded in mid-air.
    — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In New York City, there were more aborted Black babies than were born last year.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • Boddy had an aborted 2020 spring training and not even a full year this year to do what he was hired to do.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2021
  • If Breen had seen a gas station the night of his aborted escape, the course of his life might have been different.
    — David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The Buccaneers ran seven plays in the red zone, the first being an aborted snap for Brady.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The next play featured an aborted snap by likely starting center Ryan Jensen.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Outside the court, a middle-aged man held a loudspeaker in one hand and a six-foot photo of an aborted fetus in the other.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The aborted mutiny against Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia could have consequences that span the globe.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 June 2023
  • Played third base and center field for the first time since he was tried there as an aborted experiment in 1981.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022
  • In the first quarter, Watt had what looked like a strip-sack negated when it was ruled Huntley had an aborted snap and a fumble.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The aborted start meant the teams needed to go through their start procedures again for another race start, and the second try wasn’t clean, either.
    — Luke Smith, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • An aborted crime — a home invasion — might be most suggestive of the degree to which Lonnie’s and my life were linked in those days.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The second baseman on a Bruins team that finished the aborted season with the nation’s No.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Such long-term commitments were a stumbling block in the aborted effort to build a terminal in 2019.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • The vaccine was developed in the 1960s by using the cells of two aborted fetuses.
    — Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
  • The aborted mission comes almost 50 years to the day that Apollo 11 launched its historic feat to put the first human on the moon.
    — Helen Regan and Manveena Suri, CNN, 14 July 2019
  • That followed an aborted attempt last November to merge two of its funds, including one that had restricted withdrawals.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 2 May 2026

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