Sentence examples for abandoned across from inspiring English sources

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.

In the 2011 view, after the projects were razed, the abandoned bar sits across from an empty field of green grass where the Calliope once stood.

If you surf near Santa Barbara or Ventura, you may even come across abandoned pipes leading to the water that were once part of the oil industry.

Half the temple was in pieces when it was abandoned, scattered across 25 acres of land like shredded documents.

There are billions of hectares of abandoned landscapes across the world: logged forests, degraded pastures, poisoned wasteland and places where farmers simply gave up and walked away.

For almost a century, American railroads of all sizes have been shedding branch and feeder lines, leaving more than 100,000 miles of abandoned railways across the country.