Sentence examples for only just abandoned from inspiring English sources

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

Another sign was a bizarre declaration on Wednesday by the justice minister empowering all members of the security and armed forces and police to arrest any civilian causing trouble in the streets – a power not seen since emergency rule, which Egypt has only just abandoned.

I just want to dissolve the constant monotony of walking through the streets". Old railroad tracks aren't the only abandoned spaces getting makeovers.

Both manoeuvres were only abandoned under threat of legal action.

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

Just abandoned.

— Universal just abandoned "The Hulk".

"Everything was just abandoned and broken.

I just abandoned one competition.

Then I just abandoned it.

Then Shelley explained that he himself — the man who had just abandoned her — was Harriet's one "firm and constant friend," the only person in the world "by whom your feelings will never wilfully be injured.