Sentence examples for before we abandoned from inspiring English sources

There were quiet murmurs of assent before we abandoned the driftwood fire and crawled into our sleeping bags.

This hypothesis could help explain the very high rate of suicide among these veterans, compared with other, more lawfully prosecuted wars fought before we abandoned the Geneva Conventions, and before torture and illegal detention were part of America's foreign occupation tool kit.

Before we abandoned our own currency to take up the US dollar and South African rand in 2009 (we use any kind of money, but mostly those two) you could at least trade in currency - albeit illegally, to generate a bit of money.

Before we abandon hope, we send God packing.

Before the seemingly endless election season resumes, before we abandon friends because they are not of our political persuasion, before we demean others because they fail to see the world as we do, we should stop and think.

"Which we abandoned about a week before our demo day".

Our last one-woman show that night, before we finally abandoned mass transit and cabbed it back to Brooklyn, was a late dinner at Prune, a tiny restaurant on East First Street that was opened in 1999 by Gabrielle Hamilton, the owner and chef.

The desert to which we fled isn't just a wilderness in a literal sense; it is the vast uncertainty that is before us whenever we abandon the lives that we have known and head into foreign places and a vague future.

But before we totally abandon a system that has served us well, we should reflect upon an earlier so-called revolutionary technology that was also going to change the way we did business -- television, which we were told would educate the masses without requiring physical attendance at an institution.

When it looks like something I've done before, I abandon it.

In the seventeenth century, at the dawn of the scientific age, Francis Bacon suggested the need to understand which idols need to be abandoned before we can achieve progress.