The phrase "abandoned to decay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been left behind and is deteriorating or falling apart over time.
Example: "The old mansion, once a grand estate, now stands abandoned to decay, with vines creeping up its walls and windows shattered."
Alternatives: "left to rot" or "forsaken and deteriorating".
Will downtowns like Houston's be abandoned to decay, their office towers unpeopled as the pyramids, leaving suburbia to rule?
About 2 thousand kilometers of lines no longer active railways exist in our Italian territory, in most cases abandoned to decay.
Although some will miss the intimacy and quiet of the small rooms that once made up the interior of this landmarked homestead, it is nonetheless heartening to see the old place carefully, handsomely repurposed and not abandoned to decay.
For example, in China agro-residues are abandoned to decay in the field and sometimes disposed of through mass burning which is a major cause of air pollution in China (Yang et al. 2012; Hu et al. 2017; Teng et al. 2017).
This is a sport that was more or less cut loose by successive governments in the 1980s, left to fester in its decaying corrugated infrastructure, abandoned to its disasters.
The abbey was subsequently abandoned and allowed to decay.
The Coast Guard then took over the building as a nominal storage facility, though in truth the structure was largely abandoned and left to decay until it was transferred to the state of Louisiana in 1965.
By the early 16h century the castle was still in good condition, but after Henry Courtenay was executed by Henry VIII the property was abandoned and left to decay, while the park was rented out by the Crown.
After his death, a survey praised the castle as having "all manner of houses of offices", but from this time onwards the castle appears to have been abandoned and left to decay, although there is evidence that the lead and some of the stonework was taken for use on other projects.
Several plates show details of the Borobodur, the great Buddhist temple in Java, built in the ninth century, abandoned to the jungle, rediscovered in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, reclaimed by foliage and decay and finally reconstructed by Unesco.
By one recent tally, half the 1,200 estancias in the province of Santa Cruz have simply been abandoned, their manor houses left to decay in a windy and frigid climate because their owners cannot make ends meet.
