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Example sentences for: abandon

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My question to you is, at what point (if ever) does it make sense for someone to abandon, wholly or partially, his or her search for an ideal partner and settle for someone with a less than complete set of assets?
As I just finished saying, let's abandon the old politics of personal confrontation and have the kind of reasonable discussion people want before deciding how to vote.
Here's a coincidence: In the Atlantic , a black writer tells blacks to abandon race consciousness.
From now until mid-September, Time, Newsweek , the New York Times , and half the other magazines and newspapers in the country will participate in that odd journalistic ritual whereby critics abandon the skepticism we demand of them the rest of the year and emit hopeful bubbles of enthusiasm--a gush that turns to bile when the plays or movies or art shows in question prove as disappointing as one sort of suspected they would be.
You'd better abandon that unseaworthyscow, envision a soothing warm lightfills your veins instead, floods your limbs,both your legs unravel, your anklesangle helplessly toward heaven or hell,evil exits by the ten toes, a drowsysomething as if something.