Sentence examples for and abandoned in a from inspiring English sources

An aging businessman who vanished in 1979 returns to find his wife senile and abandoned in a squalid nursing home.

We found this piece of wood that had been cut and abandoned in a field next to my workshop in Trancoso, on the coast of Bahia.

A reclusive and pompous newspaper magnate is mistakenly kidnapped and abandoned in a Borders cottage, then returned to civilisation by means of a hillwalking boot-camp and a by-election, to discover he is the target of a political plot.

(AP) Baby Is Abducted and Raped A 9-month-old girl was kidnapped, raped and abandoned in a wooded area in Tampa, Fla., and was hospitalized in serious condition.

A wonderful climber, he won both the Giro and the Tour in 1998, was ejected on doping charges a year later from the Giro that he was winning again and died, a cocaine wreck, alone and abandoned in a hotel in Rimini in 2004.

In August 2004, the corpses of two men who had worked with Custer Battles were found charred and abandoned in a truck that was still burning on the road between Tikrit and Mosul, after it was struck by an improvised explosive device and fired upon from a Volkswagen, one report said.

She has been seduced and abandoned in an orchard near Aberdeen West, suffering from exposure to the cold and a blow to the head.

After being diagnosed with spina bifida and abandoned in an orphanage by her biological mother, she was adopted at the age of six by American Debbie McFadden and taken to live in Baltimore.

The story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a sex addict who's taken in by an older man (Stellan Skarsgard) after being beaten and abandoned in an alley, "Nymphomaniac" uses eight chapters to chronicle the title character's complicated sexual backstory.

THE huge terminal building of Tempelhof airport, built in the 1930s and abandoned in 2008, is a perfect setting for this year's Campus Party Europe, a annual technology festival founded in 1997.

In the village a piece of abandoned Israeli military equipment lay beached and abandoned in the middle of a road; a small towed-carrier of some sort, perhaps for ammunition, its tyres had been shot out.