How to Use abroad in a Sentence

abroad

adverb or adjective
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  • The best event looks this week are coming mostly from abroad.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Happy to be your friend of a friend of a friend, and share all my advice for how to pack when the time comes to move abroad.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Football teams, here and abroad, play in much larger venues.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Lightning bugs quickly roused from the grass and scattered abroad.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • His 50-year-old uncle went to college and studied abroad.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
  • For many, the way out is through education visas to study abroad or work permits.
    — Robert Badendieck, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Most of that increase was driven by migrants from abroad.
    — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Ugandan authorities for years have vowed to hunt down the ADF’s fighters at home and abroad.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
  • The work continues, and the impact is not only felt by Black people living in the U.S., but also abroad.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Over the last few weeks, usage of red alert apps has exploded both within Israel and abroad.
    — Bella Aldrete, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Our letters crisscrossed the United States, our travels abroad and our 20s.
    — Tyler Renner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • There was plenty of conflict too — shootings and protests at home — and another bloody war abroad.
    — Times Photography Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Their labor not only supports the U.S., but also supports the economies of countries abroad.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
  • What children and families can get out of heading abroad?
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, she's shared some more scenes of the family enjoying the holiday abroad.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The local gangs know which of the block’s residents have relatives abroad who could afford a ransom.
    — Kristen Gelineau, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • How has the experience of living abroad impacted your comedic point of view?
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Movie theaters stream live K-pop concerts performed abroad.
    — Elda Cantú Marian Carrasquero, New York Times, 21 July 2023
  • And the intense heat has coincided with the most popular time of the year for American tourists to travel abroad.
    — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • The company does not disclose the breakdown of subscribers inside China and abroad.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Has your perspective on your home country changed since moving abroad?
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The spinner wheels make this bag easy to tote around — whether storing in a car trunk on your next roadtrip, or pulling it behind you down some cobblestone street abroad.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • At select events, employees will convene from all parts of the company, and often from abroad.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As recent events here and abroad have proven, those of us who believe that freedom is anchored in the rule of law must endeavor together.
    — Lindsay Craig, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But members would still have an individual choice about whether to stay with a show that went abroad to avoid a domestic strike.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Keep telling stories to everybody in this room, to everybody watching abroad — those of you who are not actors but have a voice, have a story that needs to be heard.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But Cook instead wired the money from his Wells Fargo account into his credit union account and sent the money abroad.
    — USA TODAY, 14 May 2023
  • Its farms and small factories can’t run without migrant workers from abroad.
    — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But, with Maeve abroad, the two struggled to keep their relationship — and intimacy — alive.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Bradley Cooper and ex Irina Shayk are enjoying a summer trip abroad with their daughter.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023

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