be abandoned

Example Sentences

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Researchers stress that these hybrid bees are not completely free of mites, and current management practices should not be abandoned.

From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026

Others are concerned the turbines might be abandoned, leaving them with ocean “tombstones.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

"We want to go home, but if we go home without money, then what? We've been working ourselves to the bone out at sea. How can we just be abandoned like that?"

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

“You will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger.”

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2025

It was a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as thought of; but the room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory.

From "1984" by George Orwell