Example sentences for: abandoned

How can you use “abandoned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Wong), a Tibetan minister in charge of defending the town of Chamdo, not only abandoned it but also ordered the destruction of ammunition supplies before he left.

  • An author recounts how he abandoned a plan to sail solo to Alaska in order to nurse his dying father.

  • But if Haynes wants Velvet Goldmine to be an anthem to the principles Bowie once embodied--the embrace of artifice and the smashing of conventional sexual roles--he also wants to portray the rocker as a hollow opportunist who abandoned glam and bisexuality for the life of a corporate superstar, throwing in his lot with the forces of repression.

  • The RNC's recently remodeled site has an "Online Activist" section that enables surfers to simultaneously send an e-mail to 45 newspapers (a feature that the DNC pioneered but eventually abandoned).

  • Will (1917) is difficult to determine, and was soon abandoned.


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