Sentence examples for abandoned for a while from inspiring English sources

"We're extending, not reviving, a vocabulary that had been abandoned for a while," he explained.

Our son felt abandoned for a while but then became swept up in the excitement as well, and soon he and his sister were distributing fliers, waving signs, entering names into databases, creating a Facebook page for publicity, even dressing our dog in a campaign T-shirt and parading around the farmers' market.

The site developed slowly and, it has been suggested, was even abandoned for a while during the 3rd century.

The field was abandoned for a time.

Things are often abandoned for a reason.

Within a year, the nuclear tests had been abandoned, and President Richard Nixon had turned Amchitka into a nature reserve.Finding he preferred the tiller to the typewriter, Mr Hunter abandoned journalism for a while.

But afterward, Apatow, who was working on "The Ben Stiller Show," abandoned standup for a while.

Husbands and children appear as mere adjuncts to her art, whether dragged around the countryside while she collects traditional songs or abandoned for years while she frolics in Europe with her young lover, the Swiss flautist Gilbert Favre Thomas Durandd).

But it grows slowly in late fall, so you can probably abandon it for a while.

Since then she has revived her printmaking work, which she had abandoned for nearly 15 while building her company.

So much so that I abandoned "real" fiction for a while, relishing instead the heaps of clichés that populated practically every story I read.