Sentence examples for time abandoned from inspiring English sources

He was always at the restaurant, however, for the busiest time, from 7 P.M. till midnight, when the gang members, many of whom had by this time abandoned politics for the drug trade, took over the entire establishment.

Comedy had by his time abandoned public affairs and was concentrating instead on fictitious characters from ordinary life; the role of the chorus was generally confined to the performance of interludes between acts.

The dressmaker did not speak to him again or seek to, but he knew that the fresh blue paint, and the mourning clothes that were not, with time, abandoned, and the flowers that came to fill the small front garden were all for him.

During the first years I was a resident of the block, the cemetery walls were being repointed (slowly) by a crew of workmen, who in time abandoned the job without completing it and left the site in a state of what I felt was disrespectful disarray.

And so the national media reels off the latest horror stories of police response time, abandoned houses, and wild dogs, and pins the city's demise on the "incompetence" of its black politicians and the self-serving unions who did not face "reality".

One of the few NGOs interested in the issue of indigence in Africa [ 77], funded by UNICEF at the time, abandoned this issue.

"I'm having a hard time abandoning that model".

Victory also at times abandoned their attempts at playing out from the back, with goalkeeper Lawrence Thomas going long from goal kicks.

At times, abandon meaning to impulse.

The Times, abandoning Printing House Square in 1974, did something similar in London.

When he sits, he collapses into himself, and, at times, abandons himself to sleep, head back, mouth open.