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Example sentences for: abandon

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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."
By late 1999, they were ready to abandon their student lives in Germany in favor of violent jihad.
Of course, if the Postal Service were to simply abandon delivery to unprofitable routes, it would not have to refuse, return or destroy mail destined to these routes.
Once he does, perhaps the two parties can abandon this imaginary controversy and tackle the scourge that actually plagues Washington--not child sexual abuse, but child sexual abuse abuse.
His lack of supportiveness left her susceptible to the needy, seductive Bill Clinton, which led her to abandon her political dreams and take up his, which made her resentful, which caused her to push him even harder than his own considerable ambitions were already doing, whereupon he self-destructed, which left them both in a horrible mess, from which she has emerged in her early 50s a new woman, ready to break out of her chrysalis and fly.