abandon
Example Sentences
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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.
Increasingly, Permian landowners find themselves dealing with abandoned well bores that come back to life.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
