Sentence examples for abandon across from inspiring English sources

You clutch, grab or throw your bag with dismissive abandon across your body, as if it's a total wardrobe afterthought.

But perhaps the most spectacular lot is Lucian Freud's "Benefits Supervisor Resting" (1994), a monumental nude depicting a woman of extremely generous proportions sprawled with Dionysian abandon across a ragged couch.

One evening at the ultratrendy Kee Club in Hong Kong's own SoHo, I may have been the only person worrying about the steeply rising tab as vintage Veuve Clicquot flowed with abandon across several tables.

In 1970 at least 20m rusting cars were abandoned across America.

Over the course of the early 20th century, farms were claimed, worked and abandoned across the Great Plains and through the high altitudes of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

During the first four months the Texas law was in effect, nine babies were abandoned across the state, none of them at a hospital or police station.

Yemeni and American teams investigating the bombing of the destroyer Cole centered their inquiry today on two safe houses and a car found abandoned across the harbor from where the ship was attacked last Thursday, killing 17 sailors.

The title refers to the palmenti, or old stone wineries, that lie abandoned across the Sicilian landscape, symbols not only of a continuing struggle between the tenacity of tradition and the promise of the future, but also of the central place of wine in the tormented Sicilian soul.

When the USSR finally collapsed in 1991, most of Eastern Europe's caviar-puking oligarchs got busy buying up all the expensively-built factories and refineries that sat abandoned across the old Soviet Union.

South Africa's ruling ANC party has lost control of the symbolic Nelson Mandela Bay area as millions of voters abandon it across the country in local elections that could rewrite the country's political landscape.

But Obama is trying to convince congressional Republicans to abandon the mandatory across-the-board cuts, part of a 2011 budget deal gone bad, and embrace a "balanced" plan to shrink the deficit that includes tax increases.