abandon

Example Sentences

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Skunks can make many places their home—abandoned burrows constructed by other animals, a hollow log, even underneath your house!

From Literature

We stopped in a small clearing, in front of an old, abandoned outhouse, weathered to the color of ashes and looking like a gust of wind would knock it flat.

From Literature

After Tiamat was settled into one of the abandoned stalls, Jeremy returned to his room—and worried.

From Literature

Its stucco walls and Spanish arches were once part of a Pacific Coast Borax company town, later abandoned when the boom ended.

From Los Angeles Times

It is an abandoned hamlet in the middle of the Welsh countryside, that could be straight from a post-apocalyptic horror movie.

From BBC