abandon

Example Sentences

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“When we abandon diplomacy,” the Minnesota congresswoman said, “we choose destruction.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, what we are seeing is controlled compression — a market reducing emergency hedging without abandoning protection entirely.

From MarketWatch

But all words had abandoned me, and the only thing to escape my throat was a tiny squeak of horror.

From Literature

I glanced up and down the corridor, but we were alone, everyone else having already abandoned the simulation wing for the mess hall and their dinners.

From Literature

In effect, he is abandoning the so-called Pottery Barn rule — “You break it, you own it” — that was popularized by then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell before the Iraq war in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times