Sentences with abandoning
a·ban·don
A a - Their sensuality— [ …] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— [ …] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
- To abandon one's farm; to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship.
- Many parents are abandoning public education.
- Instead, for every person abandoning Mass, it seems two more are having their horoscope cast.
- To abandon a research project; to abandon hopes for a stage career.
- To abandon a city to an enemy army.
- A portrait of an Afghan woman disfigured as punishment for abandoning her marital home has won the 2010 World Press Photo award for South.
- Abandoning the four-wheel drive as the family car would help prevent driveway fatalities, a children's safety group says.
- To abandon oneself to grief.
- A young woman who made international headlines when appointed police chief in a violent Mexican town is fired for apparently abandoning her.
- Two carers could face criminal charges after abandoning a nine-year-old boy in the dark at a Coburg reserve.