abandon
Example Sentences
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For this reason, empathy is the greatest form of resistance, because it’s much harder to abandon someone if you can imagine yourself in their pain.
From Los Angeles Times
He pointed to research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which suggested that voters who felt financially insecure were abandoning Labour at a greater rate than those who felt more secure.
From BBC
Many of us will have abandoned our goals by mid-January.
From BBC
“You don’t abandon yourself, and you don’t abandon the other person.”
Most of his lyrics read the way poems do, abandoning the typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus structure of standard pop songs for the loosely associative through line typical of free-verse poetry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
