Sentence examples for abandons for from inspiring English sources

The real-world home life that he abandons for his fantasies plays like fantasies by the writer-director Spike Jonze and his co-writer Dave Eggers.

Comic strips and psychedelia in a potpourri of styles borrowed from modern art and commercial design — Edvard Munch, Peter Max — track Billy's excursions into the sixties counterculture, which he ultimately abandons for a wacky variant of evangelical Christianity.

But Donald Fehr, the players' labor leader, made it clear that the players could not accept the new plan in its present form, even though it abandons, for the immediate future, the owners' revenue-sharing proposal over which the two sides have been deadlocked.

His feet grip the wooden deck, wood that once stood as trees grasping the very soil he abandons, for what could be an eternity in the swells of the world's oceans.

The field was abandoned for a time.

"Those plans are abandoned for now".

Narrative, therefore, is abandoned for sensation.

It had been abandoned for 10 years.

§ 1.316 Application abandoned for failure to pay issue fee.

Maybe national prejudices can be abandoned for good.

Abandoned for 20 years, it was a moldy, overgrown wreck.