The phrase "abandoned us for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that someone has left or forsaken a group or relationship for another person, cause, or interest.
Example: "She abandoned us for a new job opportunity in another city."
Alternatives: "left us for" or "forsook us for".
In fact, my dad abandoned us for another woman months after he brought us here.
The White House holds the key, but it has abandoned us for what appear to be incoherent or at best inscrutable reasons.
In 1985, she abandoned us for 11 years in order to go off and write the crowd-pleasing Possession; worse still, she had just killed off one of her major characters in the most gut-wrenching manner.
Conservatives and Ukip share a lot of common ground on Europe and a re-alignment with supporters of Ukip on the issue might also help win back some of the voters who abandoned us for them after the last election.
"Of course we see the irony, that the Ravens only came here five years ago, leaving their old Cleveland fans angry just the way we were in '83 when the Colts abandoned us for Indianapolis," said Tommy Bush, a 53-year-old city housing worker all decked out in Ravens Super Bowl paraphernalia.
As it reaches into all areas of the city, from the barrio to the boardroom, from prisons to institutes of higher learning, the show restores New York's rightful place as capital of glamour and grit at a time Hollywood has abandoned us for Toronto, that cheaper, cleaner but ersatz "New York".
"After Massachusetts and all the polls about independents' abandoning us for being fiscally irresponsible, we can't afford to be spending more than Obama".
"I feel vindicated and I'm very excited," he told the Los Angeles Times "I'm happy for MGA, MGA employees and all the people who believed in us and did not abandon us for all these years".
Like they were abandoning us for some kind of different job, some new situation or some something else.
I find that GPs have abandoned us patients for about 118 hours a week, while they provide us with care for only about 50 hours.
All of us said that there was a 34th miner, a presence that was with us all the time in the mine, never abandoned us, and was responsible for our delivery.
