Example sentences for: abandoned

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

  • Of the many cruises you can take on San Francisco Bay, the most entertaining is a trip to the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz.

  • On the Today show, Hersh endured a two-day grilling that seemed like payback for the time and money NBC had wasted on a documentary it abandoned because of suspicions about the forged papers.

  • Take the following dance: "Middle-class apprehensions about the angry, abandoned underclasses are now only exceeded by anxieties about blind thrust faults and hundred-year floods.

  • The chambers stand on the site of St. Mary’s Close, an old tenement abandoned in the mid-17th century after the entire population had been wiped out by bubonic plague.

  • For those reasons, the Pentagon has abandoned its original boasts that stealth planes would be truly "invisible."


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