Sentence examples for I abandon it from inspiring English sources

If I don't get a song quickly, I abandon it.

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it.

I have always thought of art-making as the interval of time between the moment I choose the material, format and surface until the time I abandon it.

Though I pride myself on a certain skepticism about marketing hype -- I mean, I drive a Volvo, you know -- I abandon it as soon as a guy in a blazer comes up and shakes my hand.

"I have a beautiful study there, with a view of the water," she said in an e-mail message, "but when I'm really working, toward the end of a book, I abandon it and go into a dark sort of attic space, under the eaves, with no view and no phone, no machines, nothing but floor space and silence".

When it looks like something I've done before, I abandon it.

I abandoned it, disgruntled and sad.

If I abandoned it, maybe who knows?

The implausibility of the plot was so exasperating that I abandoned it mid-read, something I hardly ever do.

If it was such a good book, and such a short one (a hundred and eighty-six pages), why had I abandoned it?

"I had a project under preparation but I abandoned it for several reasons which I will not discuss," he said to Le Parisien.