- present participle of abandon.
abandoning
Example Sentences
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The blaze began on Sunday 9 August when a van caught fire on the A31, with 23 drivers abandoning their vehicles as the fire took hold.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Natura 2000—the world’s largest coordinated network of protected areas—and the European Union Biodiversity Strategy’s target of protecting 30% of land, including 10% under strict protection, don’t imply abandoning forest or fire management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
With dinner already half-imagined, I could pass the tomatoes and melons without treating each one as an alternate future I might regret abandoning.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"AWS and Amazon can have a wildly successful business without its own frontier model," Jassy said on Thursday, but he denied it was abandoning the effort.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
But little by little he began abandoning him to his solitude, for communication was becoming increasingly difficult.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
