Sentence examples for abandoned about from inspiring English sources

His car, the keys still inside, was abandoned about 12 miles away.

David Brooks writes that the "core educational principle was abandoned about a generation ago".

This is real architecture, meant to last for centuries though it was abandoned about 75 years after it was built.

This ambitious project, which might have rivaled Ghiberti's doors for the Baptistery, was abandoned about 1460 for unknown reasons (most likely technical or financial).

Because of the vogue for porcelain, stoneware manufacture declined in Germany in the 18th century and was finally abandoned about 1730.

This 15-foot-long Chinese Buddhist prayer book, printed in 868, was abandoned about 200 years later in a cave in northwest China.

Clear's spiffy blue and white kiosks had expanded into more than 20 airports before it shut down abruptly in 2009, abandoning about 150,000 members who had paid up to $199 for their annual ID cards.

But they were alive, and they had learned some lessons about the Taliban, about abandoned loyalties and about the uncertainties of faith.

"They've just about abandoned South Florida," he adds.

It has been abandoned for about two decades, neighbors say.

Another story I abandoned was about a globe-trotting archaeologist who fights Nazis with a bullwhip.