Example sentences for: abandoned

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

  • Thus, when Sullivan found me asserting what nearly any research professor of psychology could have told him--that not one distinctively Freudian concept or hypothesis has survived independent scrutiny--he gave a horrified glance at my chapter titles, abandoned Unauthorized Freud , and pronounced me insane.

  • Forfeited property may be acquired through forfeiture proceedings, be acquired to satisfy a tax liability, or consist of unclaimed and abandoned merchandise.

  • It was burned to the ground by Napoleon’s soldiers in 1808, abandoned in 1835 when all convents were sequestered by the state, and rebuilt in 1874.

  • Schumer abandoned his opposition to the death penalty, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and signed on to every crime bill he could find.

  • He draws on fundamentalists who blame the eventual destruction of the Caliphate on leaders who abandoned the pure path of religious devotion.


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