Sentence examples for was abandoning for from inspiring English sources
This is the kind of outburst that Kahneman typically takes back within a few days, as he did at least a dozen times when he declared that he was abandoning for good his book project, which would eventually become the mega-best-seller "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
The field was abandoned for a time.
The seat height adjustment was abandoned for the same reason.
Ultimately, the race was abandoned for financial reasons.
Realism was supplanted by fantasy; storytelling was abandoned for sensation.
Elsewhere in South Yorkshire, the race meeting at Doncaster was abandoned for the same reason.
The project, provisionally entitled Golden Dawn, was abandoned for reasons that now make some sense.
It was abandoned for 700 years, the last inhabitant of a deserted earth.
Temple B'nai Israel at 610 West 149th Street was abandoned for several years before becoming the Gospel Missionary Baptist Church.
The Spanish crown decided to consolidate – Santa Elena was abandoned for the larger fortress at St Augustine.
Counterpoint was abandoned, for it tended to obscure the text, and harmonies became simple and slow-moving.
