Sentence examples for abandoned meaning from inspiring English sources

But seriously– has any blockbuster so whole-heartedly abandoned meaning for mere misfired effect?

It felt desolate, but this was not a place of abandoned meaning.

The nascent effort to prevent leakage from fracking wells, for instance, will likely be abandoned, meaning that we'll continue to spew methane as well as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Originally passed in 1986, the law is notoriously outdated, and considers any e-mail that is over a hundred and eighty days old to be "abandoned," meaning that the author of the e-mail no longer has any reasonable expectation that it would remain private.

This was only because the No. 5 line led through a handful of neighborhoods — East Tremont, Mott Haven, Morrisania — that had been so gutted and burned out during the 1970s that whole blocks were almost completely abandoned, meaning fewer chances of stumbling into a mugger or drug deal.

The match was set up nicely, but a heavy downpour in the interval lasted long enough to see proceedings abandoned, meaning Ireland went out of the competition following a rain-ruined match for a second successive time - the same thing happening against England in 2010.

'The world is full of abandoned meanings,' he wrote in White Noise; 'Believe everything,' says a a character in Underworld, 'Everything is true.' Here he focuses that sense on the personal and the intimate, brings it to bear on the strained moments in which selfhood might slip through our fingers.

At times, abandon meaning to impulse.

Officially only seven IPOs have been abandoned this year, meaning that a prospectus has been issued and withdrawn.

Verizon has announced that FiOS is no longer being built out and appears to be on the way to abandoning DSL, meaning that they are closing down the wireline services to force people onto Cantenna.

BHP Billiton, the biggest of the bunch, has abandoned its "progressive" – meaning upwards only – policy.