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Example sentences for: abandon

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Will the Journal inform its loyal readers when we may abandon the strain of hoping for the best and return to the less exhausting task of fearing the worst?
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.
The answer, from Richard Clarke, the president's counterterrorism coordinator, is: "To extort us, to intimidate us, to get us to abandon our foreign policy."
A front-page WSJ feature uses hundreds of Microsoft e-mail exchanges released in connection with the company's myriad court cases as well as interviews with Microsoft officials to tell the story of what the paper calls the company's heated internal conflict over whether or not to abandon Windows and its successor PC operating systems in favor of a programming base that would run on any kind of operating system reachable via the Internet.
After all, I don't know that Safire recognizes the unfairness of the accusations he flings around with such abandon in his column.