Sentence examples for there abandoned from inspiring English sources

"It would have been a true blight on the community if it would have sat there abandoned".

In 1861, when Union forces gained control of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, the slave owners there abandoned their plantations and 10,000 slaves.

Mr. Russell, who grew up in Nashville and graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School there, abandoned a brief legal career and joined The Banner, now defunct, as a reporter in 1929.

It all began in April, when a local rancher, who was leasing about 30 acres of land within the confines of the Umatilla reservation and keeping more than 70 buffalo there, abandoned his herd.

Here and there, abandoned along fence lines, you sometimes see rusted four- and eight-row pickers -- the kind that fit over the cowl of a tractor like some kind of medieval armor.

"An ordinary worker — he goes home every night and, for the first time, when he passes through the narrow streets of his home in a shanty or what, he does not see any more drunkards or people smoking on the streets or children running around and being just left there, abandoned.

There, abandoning his evenhandedness, Kennedy presents a one-dimensional account of the problem posed by half a million children in foster care, many of them black.

There are looters, there is darkness, there are abandoned gurneys littering the corridors, and the alien is close.

France's religious wars prevented him from bringing fresh supplies to Charlesfort, and the colonists there soon abandoned the settlement.

Like the forests that Israel planted there, the abandoned barracks hugged the Israeli side of the Green Line.

Across West Street there sat abandoned and mangled vehicles, including one of the city's rescue trucks.