abortive

How To Use abortive In A Sentence

• Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular.
• We had to abandon our abortive attempts.
• Recently the firm has been connected with more abortive bids than successes. Times, Sunday Times
• I also made an abortive attempt at creativity with tin snips and a tin can.
• This just might be the same administration that said that the churches and the institutions they run such as schools and…adoptions agencies, hospitals, that they have to provide for their employees free of charge contraceptives, morning after pills, in other words abortive pills, and the like, at no cost," Romney added. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
• In view of this endemic sectarianism, added to the intrinsic abortiveness of Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
• The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries.
• This meeting, however, proved abortive when France and Great Britain exercised their veto right to obstruct a resolution calling on The Nobel Peace Prize 1961 - Presentation Speech