How to Use abandoned in a Sentence

abandoned

adjective
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  • He led a reckless and abandoned life and died young.
  • Many in the district feel abandoned or just want him out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • For her to be dropped off at night, at his old, abandoned house, with nobody there?
    — NBC News, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The abandoned facility is now a place to live, learn, and play for 250 refugees.
    — Aris Messinis, National Geographic, 30 June 2016
  • Desolate and chaotic would be a good way to evoke the lonely, abandoned mood of the last street, the fifth street, where the new apartment was.
    — David Rabe, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Among the scenery are new and abandoned plant nurseries, grazing cows, rusty tractors and junked race cars.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The police must have found the abandoned station wagon and traced it; someone must have called.
    — Lisa Zeidner, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2018
  • The Desis spiders scuttle amidst coral, abandoned seashells and the bottoms of kelp on the beach during low tides.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The new Scrap Tire Cleanup Grant is for property owners to clean up old or abandoned scrap tire piles.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2022
  • For years, the tiny village of Castiglioncello del Trinoro, on the edge of the Val d'Orcia, lay semi-abandoned.
    — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
  • Barquin's body was found in a pond on the course near the ninth hole after fellow golfers noticed her abandoned bag and called police.
    — Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Barquin’s body was found in a pond on the course near the ninth hole after fellow golfers noticed her abandoned bag and called police.
    — Luke Meredith, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Lindamood also said that the home looked abandoned and in disrepair.
    — David Williams, CNN, 26 Feb. 2020
  • It's been a favorite site for urban explorers in the city looking for thrills and chills in old, abandoned buildings.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • New video of 2-alarm fire at an abandoned lumberyard near Snohomish.
    — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The new residents allowed the village to fill abandoned houses with help from government funds, reopen shops and keep the school open.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • West Virginia regulators know that the coal companies do not have the money to clean up abandoned mine sites.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • Young families were enticed by prices of a single euro to buy abandoned houses around it.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 16 June 2017
  • Decades ago, trail skeptics said the abandoned railroad line should be sold off piecemeal to adjacent landowners.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2018
  • In Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away, a little girl and her parents pause the car journey to their new home to explore an abandoned amusement park.
    — Frances Leech, Longreads, 3 May 2018
  • Putin has often promised to support families with many children, but many feel abandoned.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • An abandoned ski patrol hut still stands at the top, complete with an original trail map hanging on the wall, but beware of another holdover.
    — Heather Balogh Rochfort, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2018
  • Thousands died and even more abandoned painkillers for cheaper, more dangerous street drugs, such as heroin spiked with fentanyl.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
  • At an abandoned construction site in the middle of a cornfield, a motorist stopped on the side of the road discovered a woman with her pants around her ankles, missing an arm.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Here, empty or abandoned houses serve as temporary homes to people who fled their own homes in the Middle East, Africa or Asia with the aim of starting a new life somewhere else.
    — Jovana Gec, ajc, 31 July 2021
  • One year later, a group of college kids, who enter a reality TV show, stay the night at Michael’s abandoned house – Michael pays them a visit later that night.
    — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 17 May 2022
  • Smith and her neighbors remember the brighter times when Brunswick anchored the west side community, where there are fewer abandoned homes than other places in the city.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 26 May 2017
  • Safe Haven's logo is the footprint of an abandoned baby girl who died from exposure in Indianapolis two years ago.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 4 May 2016
  • Willie Stokes of Detroit was an active man who dedicated his spare time to helping to maintain abandoned houses and vacant lots on his street.
    — Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Spotting an abandoned bulldozer, Cota asked for a volunteer to drive it.
    — Ron Grossman, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019

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