On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Abandon. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as leave or passion and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Abandon in a sentence
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Abandon meaning
- To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
- To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.
- To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
Synonyms of Abandon
Using Abandon
- The main meaning on this page is: To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. | To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. | To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.
- Useful related words include: leave, cast aside, chuck out, toss away.
- In the example corpus, abandon often appears in combinations such as: to abandon, abandon the, abandon his.
Example sentences (20)
As historian Timothy Snyder has : “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.
Broadway shaped course to ram, but fired two depth charges beneath the U-boat instead, in an endeavour to make the crew abandon ship before scuttling her. citation Lemp announced "Last stop, everybody out", meaning "Abandon ship".
Disturbance of these sensitive sites may trigger the mother to abandon her den prematurely, or abandon her litter altogether.
Officers Greene and Stodder were among the last men to abandon ship and remained with Bankhead who was the last surviving man to abandon the sinking Monitor.
To abandon these notions of freedom would be to abandon moral responsibility.
Adams insisted he was right to abandon his planned meeting at the White House to discuss migration - a meeting he had sought for many months - to return to New York.
After the exchange, Muslim people from Grevena, Lagadas, Kilkis, Drama, and other Macedonian cities and towns settled in the residential areas of Catalca, replacing the Greeks who were required to abandon their homes.
Al Ali added that MoHAP has launched several initiatives to raise public awareness of smoking’s dangers and encourage individuals to abandon this harmful habit.
A minimum of three days a week is now mandated for team members, as opposed to the Covid-era policy, which allowed individual managers to decide how often staff members should be in the office, and now the company has decided to abandon that policy.
Analysis by planning consultants Lichfields suggested Mr Sunak’s decision to abandon mandatory targets to build 300,000 new houses per year would lead to an increase in “sofa surfing”.
Andy Cole has told his old club to abandon a move for Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong.
Apparently Jenkins was inspired to create the show after first learning about Bonnet, who underwent a spectacular midlife crisis that saw him abandon his wife and children to take up piracy.
A United States senator says Washington must abandon any misguided belief that it can negotiate with Zimbabwe’s current leaders and must instead forge a coalition to remove the present government.
Before he could fully fuse with Shinso, she injected Acid into his fluid body, forcing him to abandon his prospective new host.
Between March and July 31, keeping your dog on a lead on open access land is also to protect ground nesting birds, as dogs run about in the undergrowth they flush birds such as nightjars and skylarks off their nests and may cause them to abandon them.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader V.V. Rajesh demanded that the government itself should abandon the SilverLine project as two Vande Bharat trains had been launched and steps for railway line development and addition of new lines taken.
Biden on Tuesday urged Netanyahu to change political course, suggesting the prime minister abandon his far-right allies.
Brandon Tartikoff didn’t abandon the series.
But a driver can’t abandon a car on the track and walk across the infield without penalty.
But I’d like to think that I understand how to pursue my art without such a reckless abandon.
Common combinations with abandon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to abandon 107×
- abandon the 32×
- abandon his 20×
- abandon their 18×
- abandon its 10×
- and abandon 9×
- or abandon 8×
- abandon ship 7×
- reckless abandon 7×
- abandon her 6×