Usage examples (6)

• Infection control precautions were substantially strengthened in all hospitals across the region, and we've been abele to contain community spread, as I say.
• Other varieties of the common white poplar or abele are occasionally useful, although most of them sprout badly and may become a nuisance.
• Roman camps and scattered blocks of Sarsden stone, till we descend into the long green vale where, among groves of poplar and abele, winds silver Whit.
• The sides of country roads where the abele has been planted are sometimes obstructed for a considerable distance by the thrifty shoots from underground.