Sentence examples for abandon for a from inspiring English sources

Now it was under construction, with some walls blown out and others being rebuilt, a plan for an open ceiling that designers would eventually abandon for a more traditional look, and as Durant looked and imagined, there was something beautiful about the potential — even in those early stages.

Others have established businesses, or built homes, that they are unwilling to abandon for a precarious life in Turkey.

Abandoned buildings are often abandoned for a good reason; they may be structurally unsound, weather or water damaged, infested with insects, rodents, birds or even bats.

The field was abandoned for a time.

The color scheme adopted in 2007 has been abandoned for a plain white background.

"We're extending, not reviving, a vocabulary that had been abandoned for a while," he explained.

In this paper, the contemporary fixed-size warp design is abandoned for a hybrid warp size (HWS) mechanism.

It had been sitting abandoned for a good 50 years and was untouched and original.

He points out that after fields had been abandoned for a few years, they were replanted.

Rescue work had to be abandoned for a time because of the flames that followed the blast.

Mr. Brockway found a vineyard in Solano County that had been abandoned for a decade before being purchased and resuscitated.