How To Use Abandoned In A Sentence

He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
The goal of shifting freight from road to rail has been quietly abandoned.
THERE have been many reports about the numbers of stray and abandoned animals in rescue centres. The Sun
Any tartness and capers seemed to have abandoned this dish for a more elegant life, leaving a creamy, flavourless gloop on the plate.
They also have abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.

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But the president claims he abandoned this effort when told that it would require a presidential decree.
She is a woman of integrity who has never abandoned her principles for the sake of making money.
Oil on the track forced the cancellation of the fourth race and the rest of the meeting was abandoned.
His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
Speaking to camera, the masked man accused the hostages of being spies for the British government and claimed that they had been abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
He helped man the bridge and co-ordinate the rescue operation after the crew allegedly abandoned ship.
Many of them clearly enjoyed a traditional expatriate life of abandoned debauchery.
That history was one of poverty and violence, of battered women and abandoned children.
College students are stranded in an abandoned town whose only law is the ghost of ruthless gunslinger Bloody Bill Anderson and his posse of vicious zombies.
If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee. The Prairie Mother
Home builders have almost abandoned building homes for first-time buyers and moved upscale to attract all-cash buyers.
From the fourteenth century onwards, other properties were also abandoned, so that finally the important lasting properties were signification, supposition, ampliation and restriction, and the supposition of relatives. Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
The homeless families now reside in an abandoned neighborhood advisory council building located behind the former police station.
Marine base in the province until, one day soon, the American military can install him in an “abandoned government building” or simple "a clump of ruins" in that city. Fixing What's Wrong in Washington... in Afghanistan
The fact that the cubs were orphans, abandoned when their mother was run over by a car, was of no account.
Not far away, and altogether more appealing, is the abandoned Portuguese city of Old Goa, now a dramatic collection of cathedrals and basilicas.
Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills.
The only character who sees through the subterfuge is the ex-CIA agent, abandoned by his country, whose life of dirty deeds on behalf of The Company prepares him alone to understand his role and dig his way out. Hullabaloo
Australian authorities have found no signs of foul play aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat found adrift and abandoned off western Australia.
One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.
Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
The knowledgeable authorities occupy the institutional front row only because others have abandoned the effort.
Scores of terror-stricken farmers had abandoned their properties following attacks on several of their colleagues and the death of two.
A tiny hut that looks abandoned gives up the little gateman, who steps outside, smiles, and holds the key to the hefty padlock. San Blas, Nayarit
Martin Luther and John Calvin, was that the Church had largely abandoned the Augustinian doctrine of Grace. Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
It abandoned a plan to float earlier this year. Times, Sunday Times
Workmen alerted police after noticing a red car apparently abandoned in the quarry on the Horseshoe Pass between Llangollen and Ruthin.
Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts. Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
Nevertheless, after the seesaw battle of several months, microsoft abandoned finally buying.
Amid abandoned houses, plebeian hovels and piles of refuse and sewage, there were government offices, arms factories, official warehouses, and active markets.
_The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_ The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
The policy of détente was abandoned and, under the Reagan administration, an increasingly aggressive policy was pursued towards the Soviet Union.
As I am aware that the jack hammers from the next block all last summer were intrusive and you know darn well the birds that roosted in the abandoned former furniture factory trees this past year nearly drove me out of my mind - before I decided to set off cohetes during the day and early evening to run them off, which worked, but drives your dogs crazy for which I am very sorry. Sound ordinance in ajijic?
The plan was abandoned, the lot was sold at a profit, and the funds were diverted to another purpose. Christianity Today
He has deemed himself a failure and largely abandoned literature, but Jed's portrait of him captures his bygone intensity—"he appears to be in a trance, possessed by a fury that some have not hesitated to describe as demoniac. Reflections on Self-Regard
Once inside Johnson immediately abandoned Michael while he flirted with a waitress-bar hostess he knew.
It feels as if a government ministry has just abandoned the place in the face of an invading army. Times, Sunday Times
A group of schoolboys run amok when they are abandoned on a desert island. Times, Sunday Times
A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory.
His abandoned people carrier was discovered a mile away. The Sun
After implementing this one system, seminal company abandoned institution the dependent mentality.
Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
So you started out writing a 200K-word doorstop, and abandoned it in favor of brevity. Thoughts on The Last Colony « Whatever
The "junkman" walked off with millions of dollars in ore from the abandoned mine. Fool.com: The Motley Fool
From the 1870s through World War I, most European and Latin American nations as well as Japan and the United States abandoned bimetallic standards, which based currencies on both gold and silver, and embraced the gold standard.
It established that the parents had left the house to search abandoned factories for scrap metal that they could sell.
He finally abandoned academic qualifications and appointed a collection of pharmacists, country doctors, schoolteachers, and governesses.
To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild, abandoned love to her.
This submission was made before the registrar, but later abandoned before the hearing was concluded.
I spotted him, and he rabbited and abandoned the car.
Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
The workers were digging at an abandoned mineshaft that was depleted of commercial reserves.
The sound of emergency announcements spewing from car radios left blaring as the drivers abandoned their vehicles in terror. The Sun
But this simply raises the question: why was lawful conduct abandoned in the first place?
In fact, the residents abandoned cultivating their traditional crops like barley, maize, millet and potatoes soon after the Malana charas became famous among drug users around the world in the 1980s.
The game is centered on rookie homicide detective Lazarus Jones, who is called out to a disturbance in an abandoned high school with his partner.
Some may use solvents that the art conservation field has long since abandoned, such as benzene and carbon tetrachloride, which are proven carcinogens, or caustic soda otherwise known as lye. Daniel Grant: Repair Damaged Artwork Yourself? Maybe Not
Because where better to rekindle a romance than an abandoned car park. Times, Sunday Times
There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
I abandoned my shirt for my floral bikini top and my little white tennis shoes for sandals.
Two of the wounded crusaders abandoned the tower, but the third one defended himself all day so cleverly from the Turkish attacks that on that occasion he knocked down two Turks at the entrance of the walls with broken spears. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
I am incredibly heartened by their recent decision to avoid an inversion, with so many other companies having abandoned American soil since the recession.
Sir John Smith baronet abandoned his son to his fate.
Never mind, a long-since abandoned unofficial page for the Magyar Borsodi League links straight to a Hungarian recipe for goose liver cooked in paprika - just the thing to keep your pecker up on a parky afternoon at Haladas Szombathely.
Bauer is no better than Sanford as far as his politics, but at least he hasn't abandoned his job (at least nothing public if he has). SC Lt. Gov. to ask for Sanford's resignation
I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
The vegetation types of the mid-montane subzone are mixed mid-montane forest, Castanopsis forest, Nothofagus forest, coniferous forest, mid-montane swamp forest, mid-montane sedge-grass swamp, mid-montane Phragmites grass swamps, mid-montane Miscanthus grassland and succession on abandoned gardens. Lorentz National Park, Indonesia
Einthoven said in his work in 1895 that the efforts to fully interpret the electrocardiogram should be abandoned for the moment, and in a survey of the relevant literature up to the first half of 1912, the author** put emphasis on the uncertainty of the efforts to interpret the cardiogram. Physiology or Medicine 1924 - Presentation Speech
He had long ago abandoned his loose forgeman™s shirt for a leather apron. Stormblade
The heir-at-law abandoned his claims in the city.
She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned.
Two thousand workers abandoned their occupation of the Los Monos Park when the government promised roadwork jobs at 31 cordobas (two US dollars) per day.
He abandoned his daughter to her fate.
An abandoned circus wagon with peeling paint is in the background, in it a hopeless dark woman imprisoned behind bars.
She works in wildlife rehabilitation, caring for animals that have been run over in the road or abandoned.
For a craftsman who can use all the intricate resources of good prose successfully to create an illusion that he is inspired in his least abandoned moments, it is child's play to use the more obvious devices of the metrician to similar effect. Rudyard Kipling
But the sea swell rapidly grew so strong that the refuelling operation had to be abandoned. Times, Sunday Times
Critics of humanism have for centuries declared that freethinkers once departing from religion have abandoned morality.
When she expressed her regret to me later, I told her that had she married him he would have abandoned her as soon as he became a star.
People shot and stabbed and strangled each other in sleazy bars and hillside mansions, strip malls, abandoned houses and parking lots. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests, and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled.
But as the full seizure of power by the Nazis became imminent, and as Stalin colluded with it more and more openly, he abandoned mere class analysis, as in the following passage: The Old Man
When fertility decreased, the garden would be abandoned and a new patch of land burnt for use.
Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
The scheme was abandoned and he was dumped in a cage at a research institute, alongside other less civilised chimps. Times, Sunday Times
I lost my virginity to a girl whose name I didn't know, in a sleeping bag on the floor of my mother's abandoned Fifth Avenue apartment.
In the eighth century, another earthquake struck, but by that time the city had been abandoned.
Having heard that Crete was abandoned by its native ruler, the Trojans set sail.
But this time he has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangster rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing.
Many farmers are rediscovering the largely abandoned practices of crop rotation and manure spreading.
The abandoned copper mine in the mountains has been controlled by secessionist rebels since the late 1980s.
I did see ads, but they weren't skippable, so I abandoned the videos.
The second part of that equation seems to have been abandoned by feminists early on.
After the war the land area was not derequisitioned for a considerable time, but the aerodrome was abandoned by the Ministry.
We lived in squats and abandoned buildings, didn't really go to school, travelled, hitch-hiked.
After many years the government finally abandoned its apartheid system of racial separation.
Let me go to you, Greg, on this issue of dumping the car, license plates found, abandoned in the field.
Nationally, 310,000 cars were dumped and abandoned - up 37 per cent.
One Hickling nest was built on the top of an abandoned coot's nest and in water so deep that the keeper had difficulty in reaching it clad in thigh waders.
In the second year the slow autotype process had to be abandoned for the quicker Woodburytype, by which were reproduced drawings kindly contributed by Sir J.E. Millais, Sir John Gilbert, Mr. Holman Hunt, Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Some are abandoned pets; others were born on the streets.
The floodlit one-day international between West Indies and New Zealand A at Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled because of persistent heavy rain.
It believes that offering scenes set in abandoned barns and ivy covered, crumbling conservatories will add a sinister shimmer to the formula.
In the north region, inspectors rescued 2,456 animals and collected a further 35,001 that were unwanted or abandoned.
A "missed call" was logged on the display unit beside the number of the caller, and Gemma Squires, reining in Monkey Business beside Bouncer as the hunt was abandoned, was about to show Julian that his landline was showing on her handset with the call timed at just ten minutes previously. Fox Evil
The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.
Birds abandoned their perches and took to the skies.
She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures. LORD OF THE SILENT
The venture was rightly abandoned and instead the old position was split into more manageable, bite-sized pieces.
He smells like an abandoned fridge, his breath stinks of rot. Times, Sunday Times
I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
It always starts near Kensington plaza, where people have abandoned their bags of groceries to rush home in a panic.
For him, elites abandoned the customary culture, and it became largely plebeian after 1750.
As a result, postwar peace movements have abandoned pacifism as a central aspect of their beliefs.
Those alleged offences were abandoned on Friday when the Crown announced that it would not seek a retrial. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the scenes are alternate takes of scenes involving subplots that were abandoned but containing important dialogue that had to be reshot.
Perhaps the best amalgamation of Kahane's effectively intricate arrangements and the newly acquired electric guitar sheen occurs on "Last Dance," a melancholic portrait of a new widow, or perhaps an abandoned lover "She takes her bundle of pills, she poaches her egg and eats it/And feels his slight impression like crushed pillows hold the shape of a body after nights of sleep and shadows". Daniel J. Kushner: After Aesthetics: Gabriel Kahane's Where Are The Arms
Most was spent on hunting rent debtors, people who had failed to pay for educational courses and owners of abandoned cars. The Sun
Somewhat bewildered, they abandoned the search and the world heard about yet another maritime tragedy.
Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot
But he again affirms, in the same chapter, “That the justice of God is twofold: that one kind he always uses when he punishes abandonedly wicked and obstinate sinners, sometimes, according to his law; the other kind, when he punishes sinners neither obstinate nor altogether desperate, but whose repentance is not expected.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
The family claim they were gradually abandoned on account of their lowly social status.
Bisbee's millpond, formerly called Iron Works Pond, is now called Bryant Pond after Sylvanus Bryant, who ran a saw and boxboard mill on this site from 1870 until it was abandoned in 1900.
They believed Britain had abandoned the first principles of its constitution.
Perhaps in some way they feel abandoned and search for someone who is always going to need them.
Nearby was the abandoned heavily bloodstained get-away car.
The trip north passed bombed antiaircraft guns, empty foxholes and berms dug for tanks that had been abandoned by armed forces.
I'm tormented by these zero-based environments where we've abandoned so many children.
The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years.
I like a lonely puppet, lost and I follow like a shadow another puppet, never show will not move, was abandoned in the corner of dusty, alone in despair, in a desperate sad, then continue to missing you.
After crossing the border they were abandoned by coyotes or polleros, the smugglers who transported them into the US.
He eventually abandoned the vehicle and ran off, chased by the police officer, who caught him when he fell over.
The search for survivors was abandoned because of poor visibility.
Although it does seem to me that a debate about terminology, about the conventionality of the critical lexicon, is still in order: When the powers that be in literary study want to show they have not entirely abandoned the old critical order, they like to point out that much current academic criticism is underpinned by what they want to still call "close reading. Art and Culture
Is who wasn't careful destroys one named not to leave not the abandoned puppet?
The conclusion this dissertation has reached is that Stockhausen never in his creative career abandoned serialism, largely due to his ideas about music.
Ultimately the two sides could not agree, and negotiations were abandoned.
Churches that have not been abandoned entirely are used for occult rites, animal sacrifices, and Black Masses.
If, for the sake of argument, we were to adopt this diluted interpretation of the verb "foreknow" in Rom. 8: 29, we are not to readily conclude that what we call the particularistic exegesis would have to be abandoned and the absolute sovereignty of God in the matter of election to life be eliminated. Possessing the Treasure
Thanks to this, there is an impressive record of otherwise hardy outdoorsmen who have abandoned their climbs, although always for no particular reason.
Recent discoveries have resuscitated this never quite abandoned theory; protyle seems to have been discovered, and the atom has ceased to hold its place as the ultimate division of matter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
I abandoned my horse and saddle at Xochimilco, and, catching an interurban electric car, rode into the capital. The Zapata interview
The ministry van arrived to collect the abandoned children and the eight boys and girls sent from up the northward coasts.
The election in that constituency has been abandoned and a by-election will be held in a month's time.
Is it therefore a tradition that should be perpetuated indefinitely, or should it be abandoned?
She abandoned herself to the role, identifying too strongly with the character and failing to put any insulating distance between herself and the part.
In reality it was simply a recognition that the government had abandoned any serious attempt to keep monetary growth within targets.
the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory
A spokeswoman for the clinic denied they had abandoned the therapy course on the grounds of advanced age.
The wretched survivors told rescuers the boat 's skipper abandoned them - although it was unclear last night how he managed to flee. The Sun
We abandoned the building in order to view the floricultural out-of-door exhibits, which covered the large spaces on the lawns adjoining it and the By Water to the Columbian Exposition
Mr Snippet will long since have abandoned all hope that I was ever going to respond to what he had to say, but I never quite forgot his point, and periodically, while shaving or whatever, I have been mulling things over.
One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.
The frenetic virtuosity of your playing in those contexts is pretty much abandoned for what's actually a rather reflective, timbrally controlled compositional approach. NewMusicBox
According to an eyewitness account, the thieves abandoned their vehicle near the scene of the robbery and then ran off.
In his closing submissions, Mr. Marler quite properly abandoned reliance on certain pleaded misrepresentations by Hillis considering the equivocal nature of the evidence.
Grace sat at the spinning wheel in the center of the stage and the curtain rose, to reveal an abandoned Marguerite.
Had Dr Barbara and the women abandoned the island, taking passage on a visiting whaler ? RUSHING TO PARADISE
He caught her in his arms, hungrily, and kissed her abandonedly. Phantom Wires A Novel
The commander finally withdrew his rearguard and moved the last few soldiers across the abandoned camp.
I sent Steph back to get the buggy which we had abandoned close to the water's edge.
Holding that limpid gaze, she saw something his original owner, who'd abandoned him on a south London housing estate, clearly didn't.
When fire sweeps through an abandoned building that's been used as a crack house and a meth lab, it's a given that the vermin infesting its interior walls will go up in flames, unable to escape. They Lie, Oh They Lie
When his mother abandoned the family when he was four, two aunts were reluctantly and resentfully compelled to raise Billy and his older sister, Florence.
However, any hope of preserving neutrality was soon abandoned and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Axis was announced at the Rio conference in February 1942.
A rowboat was beached on the gravelly shore and abandoned there.
If back in '64 the system seemed to have abandoned and forsaken people, what of now?
In 1996, the Scotsman simply steamrollered him, before Ebdon, who abandoned academia to serve his apprenticeship at Kings Cross Snooker Club, finally took on the mantle of the master.
Monique dusted her floury elbows and abandoned the bread-board. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors.
His mother abandoned him at the age of three and he never even knew his father.
Only the hippest and most wonderful new park in New York City, built along the old abandoned elevated freight rail line that runs near the Hudson River from the meatpacking district all the way up to 34th st and 11th Avenue. Back in the High Life Again
An estimated 20K of "My Empire for Ashes" is because, the night before the big battle that closes Act Two, Katrina comes to the castle to see her abandoned daughters - her sole return to the city after she left thirtyish years ago to join the Council's breeding program - and, when she is dismissed, she and Telenias see each other on the balcony - and they both pause. Monday
The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day—mateless and abandoned. Bleeding Violet
Alas this was not to be, as a deluge of rain descended and the dancing had to be abandoned.
Once the purely linguistic approach has been abandoned, an opportunity has been provided for a new kind of onomastic vision which treats names as names and not just as words with peculiar properties. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
The crew abandoned ship and took shelter in a nearby village. The Sun
The rhetoric inherited from the Victorian world insists that prostitutes were penniless waifs of the street, servant girls who were seduced and abandoned, or the coarse streetwalkers hardened by city life.
Because there are a lot of Republicans saying a lot of different things. whats the real Repub message? as long as the republican party was able to fool moderates and independents into thinking that republicans produced policies that economically benefited them, the republicans continued to rack up political victories from the 1980's onward. however when it finally became clear that the republican policies benefited the rich and nobody else (tinkle down economics), the indies and moderates abandoned the republican party in droves. the indies and mods never cared about the social issues the gop base held dear therefore there is no longer anything to draw the interest of anybody other than those who are the base of the party. we may be seeing a long term marginalization (and regionalization) of the republicans for the forseeable future. WordPress.com News
As it turned out, it was half-buried under the Iraqi sand because it had been abandoned, it was empty, no evidence of WMD found there, nor evidence that WMD had been manufactured there. Think Progress » Even Though Bush Used False WMD Claims To Justify Iraq War, Rove Claims They Dealt With ‘Reality’
Here and there the rusted hulk of an abandoned car dots the landscape.
weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse
In Puerto Rico, white siris is an aggressive pioneer, forming pure stands on abandoned farms and other disturbed sites It is also common in pastures at elevations below 600 meters, including areas receiving as little as 800 mm of annual rainfall. Chapter 37
By the end of the evening she had abandoned all pretence of being interested.
Each sibling feels the need to break away - Emma to follow her new dream of being an archaeologist, Blue to track down his elusive and by now vagrant father, whom he finds squatting in an abandoned warehouse.
The film was so poorly received that Lean abandoned directing for more than a decade. Times, Sunday Times
They have abandoned their cannibalism and heathen ways.
A woman in Oxford said that her kidney transplant was abandoned because there were no hospital beds for her. Times, Sunday Times
Even before the aspen and willows leaf out in the spring you'll see honeysuckles' green haze in abandoned fields and across wooded hillsides.
Plans for extensive work on the mansion had to be abandoned.
The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines

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