Sentence examples for abandon down from inspiring English sources

The phrase "abandon down" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two words that do not typically go together in standard usage.
Example: "We had to abandon down the old building due to safety concerns." (This example is incorrect due to the phrase.)
Alternatives: "give up" or "leave behind".

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At latter Park elderly ladies thrown in angry abandon down chutes, onto revolving Roulette Wheels and find themselves in Innocence Theatre, where disconcerting accidents happen in public.

"Toddlers will belt out off-key tunes at the top of their lungs, dance with abandon down the aisles of a supermarket, or colour on walls and floors, never questioning their ability".

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Some campers abandon broken-down vehicles in the forest, or go so far as to build illegal dwellings.

It's the US, after all, that reduced the Kyoto Protocol to a non-starter, and the US that led the Copenhagen charge to abandon top-down emissions targets in favor of bottom-up "pledge and review".

Labour claimed Lord Heseltine, the leading Tory advocate of mayors and stronger city economies, has been abandoned by Downing Street.

By then, the fans had long abandoned sitting down, and they howled in approval and disbelief.

But there are also lots of fun, oddball inclusions, like an abandoned building down by the river that has been transformed into a mind-destabilizing, high-concept homage to the writings of Sigmund Freud.

"The workers are devastated, feel abandoned, let down and trampled upon.

2 Corinthians 4 8 tells us "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed".

For many utilities, the decision to abandon coal comes down to simple economics.

According to witnesses, Waller was last seen standing on the bridge after he had given the order to abandon ship, "looking down at the silent turrets".

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