Sentence examples for have abandoned for from inspiring English sources

But those changes — meant to improve flood-risk pricing, end repeated payouts on flood-prone properties and entice private insurers into a market they have abandoned for decades — have gained little traction.

The loss of neighborhood restaurants, including Vera's, Mr. Besh's favorite little seafood shack near his home in Slidell, has made him and other higher-end chefs return to things they might have abandoned for inspiration, like bread pudding or grits.

The bodies are a curling ribbon of writhing, pathetic, naked women, arms flung out to the babes who slip from them into the sea for which — in the transparent film of water washing over a spar — the painter deployed all the prodigious gifts of the illusionism he was thought to have abandoned for poetically pretentious freedom.

The bodies are a curling ribbon of writhing, pathetic, naked women, arms flung out to the babes who slip from them into the sea for which in the transparent film of water washing over a spar the painter deployed all the prodigious gifts of the illusionism he was thought to have abandoned for poetically pretentious freedom.

He had been recording his daily life – and, latterly, the daily encroachment of death – since his first entry when he was 15: "Am writing an essay on the life-history of insects and have abandoned for the time being the idea of writing on 'How Cats Spend their Time'". His diary would be published in 1919 as The Journal of a Disappointed Man, to wide acclaim but it is sadly little known nowadays.

Since then she has revived her printmaking work, which she had abandoned for nearly 15 while building her company.

He also chose to return to the photographic effects he had abandoned for squiggly arrays of dots and doughnuts.

Mr. Floyd has abandoned for now efforts to get his police officers armed; a bill that would have done so passed the State Legislature in 1999 but was vetoed.

Pépé falls in love with Gaby, a young Parisian tourist, who evokes in him a longing for the Paris he has abandoned for his imprisonment in the Casbah.

Maine — Strout's DNA, the isolation and emotional restraint she had abandoned for bustling, gregarious New York City — was the thing that she'd been staying away from.

Ask the people of Detroit, Michigan or Gary, Indiana, or any of the U.S. cities industry has abandoned for more and more profit elsewhere.