abandon

Example Sentences

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Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner said on Saturday his players are being "abandoned completely" by the club's board after the Eagles' winless run stretched to 10 games with a 2-1 defeat at Sunderland.

From Barron's

"I feel we are being abandoned completely," he told BBC Match of the Day.

From BBC

That battle resulted in SDF fighters leaving Aleppo, abandoning a small redoubt in one of Syria’s largest cities.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their routine had less speed and abandon than many of their opponents, but it was clean and precise, bringing the Yorkshire crowd to their feet.

From BBC

Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.

From The Wall Street Journal