Sentence examples for abandon myself from inspiring English sources

'abandon myself' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrasal verb meaning to give up or leave oneself behind. For example, "I decided to abandon myself to my emotions and just cry."

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"To abandon myself to the fantasy of revolution," he says.

Would I never be able to abandon myself to a book?

And so I have learned to ignore the people who do not like Tabla and to abandon myself to the joys of veal loin, which is served with diced sweetbreads, gingered greens and a marrow bone.

The big plasma screen seemed inadequate; I was constantly aware of the outer edge of the frame just when I wanted to abandon myself within it, yielding to the power and sensuality that Scorsese and the cinematographer, Michael Chapman, had achieved.

Up until recently, when faced with an edge, I would abandon myself and make someone else's truth more significant than my own.

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The music was churning, hypnotic, almost psychedelic, and I abandoned myself to it.

Abandoning myself to alcohol and flirtation felt like a salvific, if reckless, kind of machismo.

"I abandoned myself to the hydra," she proclaims melodramatically at the beginning of this account.

I abandoned myself to the most natural and simple course, as I do always, and gave orders for them to be let in.

But it's not so much a question of trust that's at issue here; rather a fear of abandoning myself to a pleasure.

I worked my way through all the food on the platter, all the samosas, then finally, completely abandoning myself, licked the platter itself, and even that had a complex nutty flavor, the flakes of crust melting in my mouth.

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