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Free sign upThe phrase "abandoned in the middle of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something has been left or deserted at a midpoint in a process, journey, or location.
Example: "The old car was found abandoned in the middle of the deserted road, covered in dust and leaves."
Alternatives: "left in the midst of" or "deserted halfway through".
Idiom
(The) middle of nowhere.
A very isolated place.
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Two 911 calls described an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road.
Once, in trying to pass a bulldozer abandoned in the middle of the path, the bus got stuck in mud.
But a moment later, the call to prayer blared out over a tinny speaker, and the ball was abandoned in the middle of play.
In the village a piece of abandoned Israeli military equipment lay beached and abandoned in the middle of a road; a small towed-carrier of some sort, perhaps for ammunition, its tyres had been shot out.
Officer Shelby, who is white, was responding to reports of a tan S.U.V. abandoned in the middle of the road — its motor running, the driver's door open and the driver nowhere in sight.
In the only other game in the First Division, Nottinghamshire needed 211 to beat Warwickshire at Trent Bridge, but did not get the chance to begin their chase as the game was abandoned in the middle of the afternoon without a ball being bowled.
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By all accounts, Mr. Samuels, who was missing most of his right leg, maneuvered with relative ease, or even abandon, in the middle of thick traffic, approaching cars that were stopped — or stopping — at red lights.
The troops, I have been informed, will be based in an abandoned hotel in the middle of town.
Pelosi called Conyers an "icon," and insisted that "due process" was not something to be so quickly abandoned, even in the middle of a national uproar.
Eventually, if you keep going far enough, you get to Pilkingtons: an abandoned garage in the middle of which is a circular show-home designed by Leandro Erlich.
The Wolf Princess (Chicken House £6.99) by Cathryn Constable is a delightful, wintry, old-fashioned fairytale about three schoolgirls who find themselves in an abandoned palace in the middle of the Russian forest.
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