How to Use abandoned in a Sentence
abandoned
adjective- He led a reckless and abandoned life and died young.
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Lindamood also said that the home looked abandoned and in disrepair.
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David Williams,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2020
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Putin has often promised to support families with many children, but many feel abandoned.
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Robyn Dixon,
Washington Post,
2 July 2020
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The new Scrap Tire Cleanup Grant is for property owners to clean up old or abandoned scrap tire piles.
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Chandra Fleming,
Detroit Free Press,
30 Sep. 2022
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For years, the tiny village of Castiglioncello del Trinoro, on the edge of the Val d'Orcia, lay semi-abandoned.
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Lee Marshall,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2023
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Rogers is shopworker Polly Parrish, who gets mistakenly identified as the parent of an abandoned baby.
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Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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Here, empty or abandoned houses serve as temporary homes to people who fled their own homes in the Middle East, Africa or Asia with the aim of starting a new life somewhere else.
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Jovana Gec,
ajc,
31 July 2021
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According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.
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Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
16 June 2026
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