Sentence examples similar to I abandoned doing from inspiring English sources

I was having to make a decision: do I abandon this, or do I try and go up the ladder with it?" Then Starkweather heard that Xerox was opening a research center in Palo Alto, three thousand miles away from its New York headquarters.

There's a cleanser (which I abandoned because I don't hold with face washes), serum, gel and cream, to be layered on in that order.

"The film deals with trying to complete gaps in memory," he says, "and also with some of the powerful beliefs that people with PTSD are left with: 'I didn't do enough', 'I abandoned him'.

Maybe it was time I abandoned them, too, but not doing so had its consequences: I never got what I wanted.

"So I abandoned that plan – but I didn't tell anybody I'd abandoned it, of course".

I don't think I abandoned him.

So if you called me just as I was settling onto the couch with a cat in my armpit, and asked me to join you right now, would I abandon what I was doing (nothing) to see the latest blockbuster movie or take a spin through a museum?

Instead of working to exercise my self-control, as I used to do, I abandon my self-control and try to find ingenious ways to make a resolution easier to keep.

Do I abandon that and confront this head on?

Nor did I abandon my legal career with the California Department of Justice.

Do I abandon my work and let them tear everything down?