abeyance

In a sentence

Six example sentences with abeyance, each labelled with its topic.

• The judge placed the eviction in abeyance until the housing inspector finished the report due at the end of March.

  Law

• Plans for the tower stayed in abeyance for six years while the city argued about shadows on the park.

  Architecture

• The founders held hiring in abeyance until the next funding round closed, and nobody joined the team for eight months.

  Startups

• The treaty talks were held in abeyance through the election season, resuming only after the new cabinet was sworn in.

  Politics

• The board kept the dividend in abeyance for three quarters while the company rebuilt its cash reserves.

  Finance

• The drilling project sat in abeyance for two winters until the ice road could carry the heavier equipment north.

  Science

Found in these word lists

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More Literary words

• equanimity
• asseverate
• ingenuous
• voluble
• diaphanous
• penumbra
• grandiloquent
• equivocate
• castigate
• pertinacious
• propitious
• estimable