Examples of “abeyant” in a Sentence

adj Temporarily on hold or suspended.

• The building plans are abeyant until the city grants a permit.
• Her interest in painting stayed abeyant while she raised her children.
• The rule is abeyant for now, so no one has to follow it.
• So even where extraordinary circumstances render civilian courts abeyant, the civilian law must be reintroduced as soon as the emergency ends. — William Nester, Total War (2013)
• Having placed an abeyant death sentence on Corde's head, he turned his attention to Bose, who, for his part, looked vapid and without a shred of malice or machinatory instinct about him, a soft toy in the great department store of life. — Jonathan L. Howard, In which there is a Battle and Cabal Makes It Quick (2013)