Sentence examples for abandoned among from inspiring English sources

CHICAGO — At night, the floating cylinders of the former Prentice Women's Hospital sit dark, abandoned among the city's glowing towers.

Perez Hilton has an entire category of his Web site devoted to dodgy happenings and strange behavior at the restaurants: cars driven into walls, children accidentally or deliberately abandoned among the arcade games, even full-on adult brawls.

Relegated to the back of the fridge, abandoned among forgotten condiments and that container of heavy cream stuck to the shelf, they are mostly thought of as late-night snacks, economy dinners or tomorrow's lunch.

Slowly, opponents say, this deeply rooted tradition is being abandoned among the younger generation, although thousands of girls are still thought to undergo the cutting every day, most of them forcibly.

While some parts are staging a comeback – the Quicken Loans billionaire Dan Gilbert moved his corporate headquarters there in 2010 – tens of thousands of the city's properties still lie abandoned among overgrown lots.

In the Second Temple Period the Paleo-Hebrew script gradually fell into disuse, and was completely abandoned among the Jews after the failed Bar Kochba revolt.

"Isn't it amazing, the things people leave behind?" asks one of them, Freddy Blas, who abandons, among other things, his wife and daughter.

The Dutch, who are known for their self-control and for their reserve when dealing with outsiders and their abandon among friends, look at Davis and see a kindred spirit.

(Divers in Lake Rose have found abandoned cars, among other odds and ends).

Street art is everywhere: on the sides of buildings, on trash in abandoned lots, among transformed town houses and around new restaurants.

Black slaves, who had been recruited to fight for the British in Virginia and were ultimately abandoned, were among the most brutally savaged by variola.