Sentence examples for like abandoned from inspiring English sources

The limbs of trees howled above him like abandoned wolves.

More recently, lawmakers tightened cleanup requirements for other equipment like abandoned tanks.

Monika Kulicka's chlorophyll restoration projects look like abandoned science experiments (Johnson).

In another room were similarly decadent displays in larger sizes, beckoning from the racks like abandoned puppies.

But the housing blocks were meant to be temporary structures, and they now look like abandoned army barracks.

His works are often intentionally placed in unglamorous, arbitrary surroundings like abandoned buildings, far from the sleek world of urban galleries.

On a community level, eyesore-like abandoned structures get torn down or given a make-over, a squalid neighborhood gets cleaned up, and ordinances are created to eliminate factory stench and cluttered billboards.

The group is lured into a maze-like abandoned industrial building, where they're pursued through corridor after corridor by a Mike Myers-lookilleriller, all of which is filmed by the family's son (played by Ambrosioni), who is ostensibly trying to work on a video for a "class project".

"We didn't feel like abandoning it.

"Giving up nuclear weapons is like abandoning the survival strategy for its regime.

Yet Dr. Butti has finally achieved something tangible in Iraq, and to leave now would be like abandoning a child.