ABANDONMENT in a Sentence
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264 example sentences for ABANDONMENT, such as:
1. I was obliged to abandon that idea.
2. The captain gave the order to abandon ship.
3. We had no option but to abandon the meeting.
4. After abandonment, straightened circumstances.
5. There was a general air of festivity and abandon.
2. The captain gave the order to abandon ship.
3. We had no option but to abandon the meeting.
4. After abandonment, straightened circumstances.
5. There was a general air of festivity and abandon.
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Meanings and Examples of ABANDONMENT
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abandonment
n. the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away
n. the act of giving something up
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The burning of Smolensk and its abandonment made an epoch in his life.
2 It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.
3 After the battle of Borodino the abandonment and burning of Moscow was as inevitable as the retreat of the army beyond Moscow without fighting.
4 Nine days after the abandonment of Moscow, a messenger from Kutuzov reached Petersburg with the official announcement of that event.
5 Before the news of the abandonment of Moscow had been received in Petersburg, a detailed plan of the whole campaign had been drawn up and sent to Kutuzov for his guidance.
6 After abandonment, straightened circumstances.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7 Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not discouraged by the ancient monarchy.
8 Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.
9 It serves those who deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
10 Thus, while contemplating the misfortune which threatened her and the abandonment in which she was left, she broke out into sobs and tears.
11 She had dropped sideways in Gerty's big arm-chair, her head buried where lately Selden's had leaned, in a beauty of abandonment that drove home to Gerty's aching senses the inevitableness of her own defeat.
12 The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
13 It was even harder than he could have believed possible, to separate in his own conscience his abandonment by all his fellows from a baseless sense of shame and disgrace.
14 There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.
15 Poor Cathy, frightened from her little romance, had been considerably sadder and duller since its abandonment; and her father insisted on her reading less, and taking more exercise.
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1 The only way to apologize for your abandonment is your resignation.
2 Time will abandon those funny oath, until we also agree.
3 There was a general air of festivity and abandon.
4 He went through with his plan although all his friends advised him to abandon it.
5 Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.
6 The pair have often been known to abandon their script and begin ad libbing.
7 No need to abandon their own people more than tears desperate not born.
8 Dreams don't abandon a painstaking pursuit of the people, as long as you never stop pursuing, you will bathe in the brilliance of the dream.
9 Each side declared that it would never abandon its principle.
10 If you love a girl, it's better to fight for her happiness than to abandon her for the sake of her happiness.
11 I was obliged to abandon that idea.
12 One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters.
13 We should not yet abandon this option for the disposal of highly radioactive waste.
14 We had no option but to abandon the meeting.
15 The captain gave the order to abandon ship.