abandon
Example Sentences
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The San Francisco Chronicle and CNN last week published allegations by several women about Swalwell's conduct, leading his most prominent backers to abandon him.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Last month, the state public-service commission ruled Sleca could abandon 158 customers, including the Boss family, but sent the case over the remaining 124 back to an administrative law judge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
I didn’t want to abandon that instinct so much as … give it a little more range.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
From that point in the novel to its wrenching end, June searches for her baby with the passionate abandon of a first-time mother and the aching hunger of every mother separated from her child.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
I thrashed my limbs in desperate abandon as it streamed into my nose and mouth, stifling me, seeping into my very pores, weighing me down.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing abandon
Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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"The Perils of Indifference," Vocabulary from the speech
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"The Story of an Hour"
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