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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abandoned like this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something or someone has been left behind or neglected in a particular manner.
Example: "The old house stood abandoned like this for years, slowly falling into disrepair."
Alternatives: "left in this state" or "forsaken in this way".
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Otherwise Dudley is completely abandoned, like this activity has sent residents scampering for safety.
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"You can't find any other place that's totally abandoned like that".
Some forbidding 19th-century structures survive, but they are mostly boarded up and abandoned, like the Green Street School.
But other traditions had to be abandoned, like the ball girls fielding the foul balls that rolled down the screen in back of home plate.
However, management practices are the subset of agile practices undergoing major adjustments and even being abandoned, like the estimation techniques.
A Taipei-based hardware startup called JoyRay wants to create a smartwatch for kids that won't end up abandoned like the Velveteen Rabbit.
"We also are asking anyone who may find a backpack abandoned like the one pictured to call us," the sheriff said on Facebook.
"Literally the town looked abandoned, like a ghost town.
They were abandoned, like elliptical cannonballs, by the same retreating glaciers that formed the esker.
So they sit there on the table, each on its own plate, abandoned like orphaned children.
Babies are abandoned like unwanted kittens; half die in foundling hospitals before their first birthday.
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