How to Use abandonment in a Sentence

abandonment

noun
  • Parental abandonment is passed down, learned.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • But what felt like freedom to me felt like abandonment to the others.
    — Kelly Martens-Crompvoets, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Raskin said the focus on the group was an abandonment of the program’s goals.
    — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Cart abandonment rates are unlikely to fall on their own.
    — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Trump’s abandonment of Means comes as no surprise.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The author means this in the larger sense of abandonment—of a parent, of a friend, or even of a boss.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Call abandonment rates dropped from 48% to 22%.
    — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Torture, abuse, abandonment; too many pictures, too much pain.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Walking out feels like abandonment.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • He was charged with endangerment or abandonment of a child and has pleaded not guilty.
    — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • He was charged with endangerment or abandonment of a child and has pleaded not guilty.
    — Rachel Wolf , Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Kids end up in foster care due to neglect, abuse or abandonment by their parents or caregivers.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 24 June 2026
  • White says the abandonment was impulsive but also years in the making.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The law was intended to reduce the risk of harm or abandonment by parents who may be in crisis.
    — Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
  • This opened decades of abandonment for left-behind spirits to haunt the property.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The first step to overcoming a fear of abandonment can look like opening up to your partner about your concerns.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Fear of abandonment is fairly common.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Gustav has his own abandonment issues.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The lack of protection, the spirit of abandonment.
    — Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The château and the garden settled into a season of decline, if not abandonment.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Both have also been charged with a misdemeanor abandonment of an animal count, court records show.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • An abandonment of the best version of Chicago’s offense.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • To retreat now, as the regime imposes silence and martial law, is abandonment.
    — Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This language can suggest frequent pivots and abandonment of projects.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • And always underneath all the resentment and abandonment is a love there.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Human disturbance at beach nesting areas can result in nest abandonment or the loss of eggs and chicks.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
  • Over time, though, this grows into resentment and hatred because of his abandonment.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 19 May 2026
  • Even if Noelle—and the reader—got all the answers, the vivid scar of April’s abandonment would remain.
    — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The woman, whose face was blurred in the video, was booked on charges of animal abandonment and resisting arrest.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As for the situation that may have surrounded the cats’ abandonment?
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2025

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