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Example sentences for: abandoned

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After 1759, most colonial administrators and merchants just abandoned Québec, while many who stayed on moved to the shelter of the new British defenses in the Upper Town.
Didn't you cover them back in your Forward days, before you abandoned the chosen people to hang out with the people you claim are the envy of the world?)
A few years later, RCA, ITT, and CBS abandoned their "synergy" plans and sold their book divisions.
After the town was abandoned to malaria and Arab invaders in the ninth century, the monuments disappeared under wild vegetation until their rediscovery 900 years later.
The island abandoned its "one China" policy, which implied China's sovereignty over and eventual reunification with Taiwan.