Use abandon in a sentence

Example Sentences for abandon

• The police finally had to abandon their search after looking for the lost child for over a year.


• John has had to abandon his plans to become a doctor because he gets sick at the sight of blood.


• She had to abandon her car and walk to work after getting stuck in the snow.


• I will never abandon my dream of becoming a writer.


• Harriet Van Horne once said that cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.


• If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her babies.


• We had to abandon our plans to buy our own house after I got laid off at work.


• The deaths of some villagers after the eruption of the volcano was unavoidable, for the simple reason that these people absolutely refused to abandon their homes.


• Firefighters had to abandon their efforts to fight the fire because the building was in danger of collapsing.


• Bernard Lovell once suggested that a study of history shows that civilizations that abandon the quest for knowledge are doomed to disintegration.


• The climbers were forced to abandon their attempted ascent of Everest due to fierce storms which threatened to cover them with several inches of snow.


• If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young.


• Belva Lockwood once suggested that if nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.