Sentence examples for only abandons from inspiring English sources

"What we take too often for joviality masks a fundamental irony that he only abandons in exceptional circumstances, when the gravity of the moment demands it".

WHEN the Progressive Conservatives won power in Alberta, Richard Nixon was still in the White House and Britain had only just abandoned shillings.

"A poem is never finished," said Valéry, "only abandoned".

Hammarby implies that in Sweden, social democracy was only abandoned for the poor.

A POEM is never finished, only abandoned, the French writer Paul Valéry once remarked.

There's that old saying that goes something like "Novels are never finished, they're only abandoned".

Earlier in the week, an Isis spokesman said the first Turkish air strikes had hit only abandoned headquarters buildings.

He only abandoned the plan when the rocket-launcher he'd been practising with exploded in his hands.

Any author will agree with the statement that a work of art is never completed, only abandoned.

Mr. Dole's words should remind his party that it is not only abandoning its past, but damaging the country's future.

There was considerable harshness in relations with Belgium, which not only abandoned its neutrality for a close alliance with France but demanded territorial cessions from Holland.