How to use abandon in a sentence

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• It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.From the entry institutionalized
• I cannot abandon my husband for the sake of self-interest and personal gain.From the entry self-interest
• Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.From the entry abdicate
• I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!From the entry ghetto
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoning.From the entry abandoning
• You can't abandon your hopes in midstream.From the entry in midstream
• Instead, we abandon Teagues test because it poses a question this Court has no business' asking.2021, Edwards v. Vannoy (U.S. Supreme Court No. 19–5807), Justice Gorsuch concurring. From the entry have no business
• After a forty-five-minute struggle against vastly-unequal odds, aboard the Johnston, the order is given to abandon ship.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 34:35 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry last stand
• If Mr Johnson lost a confidence motion, he could abandon no-deal to try to regain MPs’ confidence.2019 August 29, “The Guardian view on Johnson v parliament: an unelective dictatorship”, in The Guardian. From the entry confidence motion
• Doomsayers predicted that consumers and advertisers would abandon pay-television en masse in favour of online alternatives.2013 August 17, “Pennies streaming from heaven”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849. From the entry fast
• The parser then must abandon its initial parse and attempt to reanalyze the input.2013, Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, Michael K. Tanenhaus, “Sentence Comprehension before and after 1970: Topics, Debates, and Techniques”…. From the entry garden path sentence
• Even after abandoning faith for secularism, quarians continued to revere the wisdom of elders.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Religion Codex entry. From the entry secularism
• Soft determinism, however, is open to objections that have led some philosophers to abandon the position.2007, Steven M. Cahn, “Free Will or Determinism?”, in Puzzles & Perplexities: Collected Essays, 2nd edition, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry soft determinism
• These people would then have been forced to abandon their language and become Swedophones.2006, Carl O. Nordling, Finland: The Making of a Nation, page 98. From the entry Swedophone
• "Oh, I guard the tunnel, little one," the hoblin leader said, abandoning the Fell-speak.2006, Peter Thomas Crowell, Haunted Mountain, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry hoblin
• "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," the plaque on the Frolic Room door says.2005, Jade Blackmore, Close But No Pizza, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry abandon hope, all ye who enter here
• They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes.2002, W. Barry Baird, Vietnam Journey, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry buy the farm
• Sadly, I detect a pattern I was sure would develop if Haven ever decided to abandon vagitarianism.2002 June 10, Pete Zaface, “Rog DVD Review- 100% HAVEN”, in rec.arts.movies.erotica (Usenet). From the entry vagitarianism
• Lily: I couldn't just abandon my friends to this creepy crawler!1999, Mona the Vampire, "The Dreaded Human Spider" (season 1, episode 5a). From the entry creepy crawler
• Whole other earths, other human races, which we create and abandon.1998 February 15, John Kessel, Corrupting Dr. Nice, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255. From the entry human races
• The Germans (and the United Kingdomers) are reluctant to abandon their currency.1994 October 18, Matti Linnanvuori, “Descartes to mar the ecu?^([sic])”, in eunet.politics (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul…. From the entry United Kingdomer
• His teeth, lips, and tongue serviced her hungry lower mouth with abandon.1989, anonymous author, chapter 1, in Champions of Pleasure, Nexus Books, page 14. From the entry lower mouth
• But it is always wrong to abandon men who have been friends to their fate.1988, Richard Nixon, “The Awakened Giant”, in 1999: Victory Without War, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258. From the entry leave no stone unturned
• Adam had slammed down the telephone receiver and immediately given the order to abandon their position.[1988, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 12, in The Last Goodbye, Severn House, published 2007, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200. From the entry Wong Nai Chung Gap
• In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests.1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry metroplex
• He preferred, he said, bells, glockenspiels, dulcitones, and marimbas—anything that would whoop, tinkle, and glide with abandon.1969, 100 Famous Australian Lives, page 299. From the entry dulcitone
• We now come to the difficulty that caused Russell himself to abandon 'if-thenism'.1968, Bertrand Russell; philosopher of the century, page 287. From the entry if-thenism
• She spoke with a sort of doomlike abandon for which her high, astringent voice was not fitted.1952, Herbert Ernest Bates, Love for Lydia. From the entry doomlike
• His better verse is direct, forceful, sinuous, and pithy, and has the Gallic abandon and archful insouciance.1928, University of Washington, University of Washington publications in language and literature, page 44. From the entry archful
• Steen abandons the plan, though not before his association is badly split.1920 January 17, “Onward march of organization. Many organizations of newspaper men revive activities temporarily shut off by war”, in The…. From the entry million-dollar question
• Where melancholic men abandon effort, men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing.1918 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Oswald Takes Control”, in Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, London; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry choleric
• Miss Mansfield abandons her salt furrow and in two stanzas lies flapping and wappering.1912 March 28, “Present-Day Criticism”, in The New Age, volume 10, number 22, page 519. From the entry wapper
• At which point, my mind abandons the count, rationalising that there are countless more unlikening bricks in this building.2023, Leilani Taneus-Miller, Brown Girl. From the entry unliken

Meaning of abandon

1. verb To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
2. verb To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
3. verb To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

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Questions about abandon in a sentence

How do you use abandon in a sentence?

Abandon is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.”

What is a short sentence with abandon?

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoning.”

What does abandon mean?

Abandon means to give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.