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Example sentences for: abandoning

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The British Commonwealth resisted abandoning their traditional measures, but in the early 1970s--under the slogan "Metric: 10 times better"--they, too, metricated.
And even though it was widely known that many of these women's husbands and brothers in Wehrmacht uniform had fled to be taken prisoner by the Allies, abandoning the women to pay for the dreadfulness the menfolk had inflicted on the eastern front.
They're abandoning their lazy, hedonistic lives for domesticity.
H-2A agricultural workers are required to maintain a foreign residence which they have no intention of abandoning.
In 1965, for example, Dylan went electric, abandoning folk's soft sound, earnest politics, and rabidly loyal fans.