Sentence examples for were then abandoned from inspiring English sources

Under construction since 1963, its diking was partially complete by the mid-1980s, but plans were then abandoned.

First, at the time of the conquest the Maya generally buried their dead beneath the floors of houses, which were then abandoned.

Parts of the canal were then abandoned, sold off and filled in.

It was then abandoned between 1520 and 1600.

P'eng-hu was then abandoned and became a lair for pirates.

The cairn was then abandoned, and its location is now unknown.

"The test was considered to be a failure," the inspectors wrote, adding that Iraq said the work was then abandoned.

In 1431 Thai armies seized Angkor, which was then abandoned as the Khmer shifted their capital to what is now Phnom Penh.

The Bambuti show little concern with afterlife; the dead are buried in or near their hut, and the camp is then abandoned.

Last month, Sister Barbara was shot to death in Guatemala City by two men who stole her pickup truck, which was then abandoned a few blocks away.

The facility was then abandoned after about 40 militants were supposedly killed by the pathogenic culture of pneumonic plague as a result of "improper hermetic conditions".