Sentence examples for abandoned becoming from inspiring English sources

This once-beautiful lake we used to fish without fear has been all but abandoned, becoming a dangerous crocodile-infested swamp to be avoided at all costs.

A second trial on the Metropolitan Railway in 1862 was also a failure, and the fireless engine was abandoned, becoming known as "Fowler's Ghost".

The endorsement reinserts Mr. Gore into a race he was reluctant to abandon, becoming the senior backstage adviser and the highest-profile headliner in a seemingly unstoppable campaign that has dominated news coverage.

And if the law ever declared formally that Jonathan Lebed didn't break it, the S.E.C. would be faced with an impossible situation: millions of small investors plugging their portfolios with abandon, becoming in essence professional financial analysts, generating embarrassing little explosions of unreality in every corner of the capital markets.

But James -- after seeming detached in Game 3 -- attacked the lane with reckless abandon, becoming a single-man fast break, and Wade was hyperactive on defense with those super quick hands.

Bowling and the movies he abandoned after becoming a father.

Others, long vacant or abandoned, are becoming solid walls of five-story brick buildings.

In her book, "The Arid Lands," she said "desert" may come from the Egyptian hieroglyph pronounced "tesert," which became the Latin deserere, meaning to abandon and forsake, before becoming the "desert" we know today.

At 28, she abandoned ambitions of becoming a doctor to move to New York.

Stripped of its grand décor, the Italian Renaissance-style tower was abandoned in 1986, becoming, like its skyscraper neighbors, a home for squatters.

Lowell P. Weicker, then the governor of Connecticut, was a maverick Republican, and later abandoned partisanship altogether, becoming a rare independent governor.