Sentence examples for abandoned it for from inspiring English sources

"The landlord abandoned it, for all intents and purposes," she said.

After his Chinese junk kept sinking, he abandoned it for terrestrial accommodations.

On leaving, he tried accountancy, but abandoned it for a job in the Workers' Bookshop.

He craved the quiet security of academic life but repeatedly abandoned it for the risks and tumults of public office.

When the English abandoned it for biscuit the Americans stuck to cracker, and used biscuit to designate something else.

His passion was writing, but he abandoned it for a career in science, particularly the study of the eye.

But the farm was a commercial flop, so he abandoned it for Manhattan and then in 1858, with Calvert Vaux, won the competition to design Central Park.

"I had a project under preparation but I abandoned it for several reasons which I will not discuss," he said to Le Parisien.