Abandon In A Sentence

Q: How to use abandon in a sentence?

1. Now you would abandon me. 2. But we do not intend to abandon speculation. 3. Could you abandon the dear maid at home? 4. Should he really abandon his master to his fate? 5. Let us abandon the monkeys for the present.

Definition of Abandon

(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)] | (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)] | (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]

How To Use Abandon In A Sentence?

Just as he was about to abandon his search something fluttered at the very roots of the bush.
Therefore, while not exposing himself needlessly, he advanced with more abandon than before.
They would sooner be disbanded than abandon that tune; it is a part of their system.
To abandon them would argue, not diffidence in his abilities, but treachery to his cause.
Come, we must abandon this height, as night is setting in, and the messenger is not returned.
But lack of funds prevented further experiment, and Haenlein had to abandon his attempts.
Neither you nor I shall be to them what we have been; but still, let us not abandon them.
One hour slipped by and then another, and still I did not abandon hope of their appearance.
Surely,' she says, with her eyes filled with tears, 'you are not going to abandon me.
For my poor dear father, when he knows all my crime, will abandon me, as I deserve.
The French did not abandon so lightly their scheme of striking at Albion through Cinderella.
The failure at New Ross had compelled them for the time to abandon their attack on Waterford.

My neighbour Menedemus, well deceiv'd, Would ne'er have seen his son abandon him.
They were told at their reception that they might abandon themselves to all kinds of licentiousness.
Their sails had been taken from them and they were ordered to sink rather than abandon their position.
Rather than abandon such enterprises, they would persuade him to a strange alliance between those extremes.
I started from him with horror, pointed out to him his ingratitude and folly, and intreated him to abandon his purpose.
Every arrangement was made for my departure, and during the preparations, the sultan was continually with me, persuading me to abandon the idea.
In fact, officers of the national societies predict that the societies will gradually abandon the field of insurance and develop along other lines.
They neglect their intellectual life, and abandon all attempts to keep in the movement, all in order to grind down the weekly bills.
No enticement, even of a dog-friend or of a great bone, will induce this faithful servant to abandon his charge.
We do not then intend to abandon speculation, but to plant it, if we can, on a better foundation, and build it up according to a better method.
It was but a passing boy with a stick, but Dicky was sufficiently disturbed to abandon his quarters and take his music elsewhere.
He may, at any time, abandon the refined and artistic methods of high finance for primitive, crude and direct means unworthy of his talents.

Still I could not consent to give up the trial and abandon those dreams of renown in which I had indulged.
Whereupon the Sikhs abandon a neighboring fort, and the road to Kulallwala is open without a shot fired.
With regard to the concert the Philharmonic had resolved to give in my behalf, I would entreat them not to abandon their intention.
Whether it will be necessary for her to act in defense of the doctrine or abandon it, may well be determined by the issue of the present war.
But when Miliuc heard that Patrick had arrived, he wished not to believe for him, and to abandon the pagan religion.
In connection with this difficult question Brant had intended making a trip to England, but was forced to abandon the idea.
The minds of men were occupied with problems which it alone seemed to be able to resolve, and they would not abandon it at the will of the first innovator.
He had been stretched in an attitude of abandon on the couch when she opened the oak paneled door, but he jumped to his feet in a spasm of rage and alarm when he discovered that he had a visitor.