Sentence examples for places abandoned from inspiring English sources

In some places, abandoned cars are common, too.

Look at all these unloved places abandoned by bureaucratic neglect, as are the people who sometimes live near there.

Throughout Italy, which is not use to the white stuff, up through the Balkans, and into central Europe, transportation problems multiplied and drivers, in places, abandoned their vehicles.

The result is what Mr. Brooks aptly calls a "hereditary meritocratic class": Kids who grow up in neighborhoods filled with college graduates -- and good schools -- start life with a leg up; those raised in places abandoned by college graduates are at a disadvantage.

For every quaint afterlife enjoyed by a Bournville or a Port Sunlight, there are hundreds of such places abandoned when the winds of commerce shifted – the sands of the American west are full of mining towns that disappeared when the seam ran dry, and railroad towns that up and left when trucking captured the lion's share of overland freight traffic.

In other places, abandoned bunkers have become a lethal danger.

They deliver the goat into the freedom of one of Bhutan's most sacred high places, abandoning him to the wilderness in the process.

So the garden looks welcoming, not like a hopeless place abandoned to the elements.

At the time Jean-Pierre Chateau, who lives nearby, told Le Figaro newspaper that it was "heartbreaking" to see the place abandoned.

Ward Three on the 16th floor of the Zhongshan No. 2 Hospital here has the feel of a place abandoned in fear and in a hurry.

In 1590, three years after a hundred and eighteen men, women, and children disembarked there, a mission carrying supplies from England found the place abandoned, with books, armor, and maps buried for safekeeping.