Sentence examples for abandoning something from inspiring English sources

People are always abandoning something; they feel they haven't been allowed to grow.

Blincoe and Thorne, by contrast, are too poor too young; paddling in remnants, they are incuriously abandoning something they did not possess anyway.

Whatever is true, none of these would be good enough reasons for the waste of money and effort in abandoning something of direct benefit to the impoverished districts whose betterment is so often invoked as the reason for holding the Olympics.

But I'm a little suspicious that we're not using the previous bill as a basis [for the reauthorization], abandoning something that people have put a lot of work into and that stakeholders have had a chance to provide input on.

The sheer ecstasy of abandoning something that wasn't working for me in order to search for something that would was a powerful feeling.

Right action builds and supports right thoughts and also right speech, because it is not enough to just think about abandoning something harmful or practicing something beneficial, you need to actually step in and do it.

How could anyone abandon something so precious?

It's painful to abandon something.

Generally, yes — legally you can't abandon something by mistake.

Though he might also say it's O.K. to abandon something that really doesn't work.

If you just abandon something, and then start from scratch, and it happens to work out, fantastic.