Sentence examples for he almost abandoned from inspiring English sources

He almost abandoned the project when Jasper Johns did the same thing with an American flag.

Which is ironic, since Buckley will not only never know, he almost abandoned the song, unrecorded.

He almost abandoned two especially tricky vertices, which couldn't be made to coöperate, but past his deadline he made one last-ditch effort.

Her letter is the most touching in this collection of letters, both to and from Bernstein, which shows, among other things, that he almost abandoned "West Side Story" over a conflict with the librettist Arthur Laurents.

He quit his job the following year and started navigating his first novel, Americana, which he almost abandoned along the way and was not completed and published until 1971.

Mr. McCourt's brother, Malachy, the actor and writer who goes by the nautical name Anchors, was adamant that there is no mooring and reminded the other mates of one dark and stormy evening not so long ago when, because of a sense of mooring pointlessness, he almost abandoned the other mates.

But he almost abandons his plan thanks to Frodo's kindness, only continuing with it because of a right harshing from Sam. Sam, you had one job.

Now 31, he has sailed, at times disdainfully, through a sporting career that he once almost abandoned in favor of working at the Malmo docks.

And he has almost abandoned weird ideas — unless you count the rather beautiful leather gauntlets with fur at the fingertips.

Maybe the last few days when he was almost abandoned.

After the age of about thirty they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all -- and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery.