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How to use abandons in a sentence

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Alas, the wild youth, morally suborned by the coarseness of his adventures in America, abandons the innocent Ruth.
The Talmud governs nearly everything, yet never abandons its technical models drawn from everyday life, its almost folksy intricacy.
Thompson retains the lines but abandons their judicial context, thus depriving the play of its retrospective irony.
The film will feature Sarah Polley, a Canadian actress, as a reclusive nurse who abandons her first holiday in many years to work on a rig.
Rhythm abandons the cottage, shimmies out into the lake and moves a bobber, somewhere.
In other words, Movable Do abandons any sense of absolute pitch to achieve relative pitch.
Every year the city abandons itself to the heady allure of the world's largest arts festival.
In objectifying his memories, Jim abandons what we might call his realism for a mode of representation more characteristic of modernism.
While putting aside his striving for strength, pride and dignity, the masochist abandons himself completely.
This budget abandons all hope of reforming wasteful military procurement and distorts America's priorities at home and abroad.
But as soon as Stefano abandons the warmth of his bed and dresses, his irritation takes a back seat to an inflated and mistaken sense of purpose.
The boys' hopes for a continental tour are dashed when the French impresario who invited them over abandons them on the dock.
I also suspect devotees are anticipating the day she abandons all formality and just does bitter, manic, 1980s performance poetry.
A perfectionism that rejects or abandons what we cannot fully control is a flaw far deeper than a monster's ugliness.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen abandons the swags and tie-backs in his Cornish home, although the locals are always asking his opinion on theirs.
Then Joseph finds gold in a creek, first hides this from his family, then abandons them to go prospecting.
Meanwhile in Japan, a geisha is made pregnant by an abusive Englishman, who abandons her.
If either of them has the career break or abandons work outside the home altogether when children arrive, it will be her.
The plot heats up as lovers change partners, but for long stretches, the author pretty much abandons plot for a digression.
But it soon abandons easy-listening hipness and becomes a heavy-handed biopic about a tormented genius.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They fall into the ranks of those whom the world abandons as irreclaimable.
He inclusively, in a great measure, abandons the right of self-defence, the first law of Nature.
You now owe a duty elsewhere, and must preserve the loyalty of that name in yourself, which he so determinately abandons.
The ideals that we owe to Christ are the ideals of the man who abandons society entirely, or of the man who resists society absolutely.
The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny.
In some ways, Amnesia abandons its great characters in favor of its social themes.
Determined to start anew, she abandons Britain for the balmier climes of Jaipur and a retirement home called The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
He is struggling along, doing the best he can, and it would not be etiquette for me to take his job until he himself abandons it.
After a young woodie abandons the tree cavity in which it was hatched, the little ducklings often travel over land for hundreds of yards to reach water.
That hint of loneliness, that soul of the sea which had accompanied her as far as the Lower Hope Reach, abandons her at the turn of the first bend above.
In Barry's fifth stand-up album aptly titled, Crowd Work, he daringly abandons all written material and does an entire tour riffing with the audience.
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