Sentence examples for lost abandoned from inspiring English sources

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It is remarkable that a man will write and carve various abominations on a bench while at the same time he is feeling lost, abandoned and profoundly unhappy.

Without similar protection, they may well join the thousands of "ghost" villages that have already been lost, abandoned and destroyed – some visible, others not.

The solo women, amid the recent heavy rains, occasionally have a lost, abandoned look, like Tess of the D'Urbervilles on an exceedingly bad hair day.

A year later, "La Hamaca" is still being held by Sotheby's, awaiting a settlement between the competing claimants -- a familiar standoff for works of art from Cuba that were lost, abandoned or directly confiscated as Fidel Castro's government took control.

Though little written evidence survives from the early seventeen-nineties, what does remain, and what Wordsworth himself tells us in "The Prelude," suggests that he was a doctrinaire ideologue, certain that no one could oppose the Revolution "Who was not lost, abandoned, selfish, proud, / Mean, miserable, wilfully depraved, / Hater perverse of equity and truth".

A lament to a vanishing heritage and an exploration of the surprising new uses found for churches, it reflects Matthew's curiosity and sense of story-telling, and his deep love for the creators and architecture of these buildings, lost, abandoned, rebuilt or reborn.

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These shoes, bound pieces of denim with soft soles designed to leave no trace in the Arizona desert, have been lost or abandoned by illegal immigrants traversing Mr Chilton's 50,000-acre cattle ranch, which stretches to the Mexican border.

In the summer, when temperatures exceed 100 degrees, the bodies of immigrants who were lost or abandoned by smugglers are sometimes found in the desert.

He'd lost Deborah — abandoned her, really — along the way.

They look lost and abandoned, lit up with dinky light bulbs.

Part of these notes' story is that they were lost or abandoned.

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