Sentence examples for abandoned some time from inspiring English sources

In "Rêve Haitien," Mason, an O.A.S. observer in Port-au-Prince, loses at chess to a proud, angry Haitian whose bearing hints at "old affluence, also an attitude, a sexually purposed life that had been abandoned some time ago".

The site was completely abandoned some time around the eighth century AD, and today is little more than an archaeological site and tourist attraction located 40 miles to the Northeast of Mexico City/Tenochtitlan.Even if you elect not to print this letter, I hope that at the very least you will print a correction to the story.

Jahr argues that the researchers erred by bringing together blood substitutes with different track records, including one that was abandoned some time ago for safety reasons.

It was quietly abandoned some time later and the council now says it does not have "any formal data from that period" - but reports suggested the system did not yield a single positive identification.

Although the vicus grew rapidly in the early 2nd century, it was abandoned some time between 120 and 160 – broadly coinciding with the demolition of the fort – before it was re-inhabited when the fort was rebuilt.

(Yes, there are Nook apps for Mac and Windows, but Barnes & Noble abandoned them some time ago.

"Of course, this land had been abandoned for some time and the hunters thought it was theirs.

He must be glad to know that some of his readers think of him as, in the words of one, "a real storyteller in a literary world which abandoned storytelling some time ago".

In general, in the labour market, foreigners fill jobs that have been abandoned for some time by Italians.

Some of these appear to have been built within the ramparts of earlier hillforts, which had been abandoned for some time.

It was 3.30 m thick and over 5 m high, but its effectiveness was apparently limited, and it was abandoned at some time in the 7th century for want of resources to maintain and men to garrison it.