Sentence examples for abandoned back from inspiring English sources

The phrase "abandoned back" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has been left behind or neglected, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The abandoned back of the house was overgrown with weeds and debris."
Alternatives: "neglected rear" or "forsaken backside".

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The night of the siege, we journalists drove down abandoned back roads in the desert to reach the studio, driving past walls of barbed wire that brought to mind images of the United States-Mexico border.

Here, Delia Byrd (the appealing Deirdre O'Connell), the louche forty-year-old former lead singer of a band called Mud Dog, goes in search of the two daughters she abandoned back in Georgia fourteen years ago, before grabbing the live wire of fame.

In the late 1970s the lease ran out, and developers bought the entire block (by then largely empty and rundown, a great playground, roses and irises running amok in abandoned back gardens) with a view to putting up a block of flats.

Beijing seems to have has essentially returned the yuan to a dollar peg, a policy it formally abandoned back in 2005 in favor of multiple foreign currency reference points.

Even while calling for a global substitute for the dollar's reserve currency role, Beijing has essentially returned the yuan to a dollar peg, a policy it formally abandoned back in 2005 in favor of multiple foreign currency reference points.

But it's also had some hiccups in its municipal WiFi efforts in the past, including one effort in San Francisco that was abandoned, back in 2007, after Earthlink hit the rocks.

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But for decades many structures were abandoned for back taxes.

"It wasn't until eight years later when he plucked up courage to ask me why I abandoned him back then.

It is part of the long process of bringing this extraordinary abandoned space back to life and to find a new future for a building of international significance.

After the Olympic building burned, reporters visiting the ruins found the sarcophagus with nails abandoned out back, as if dragged there by the looters who emptied the building of its furniture before it burned.

Allardyce abandoned the back three he used in the 6-2 drubbing at Goodison Park in favour of a 4-4-2 system with a narrow midfield.

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