à l'abandon
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of à l'abandon
Literally, “with abandon”
Example Sentences
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Les deux bâtisses encore debout sont en ruines, et le jardin autrefois verdoyant est à l’abandon.
From New York Times
Il faut prendre sa vie, et tout ce qu'on a, et le ietter à l'abandon, pour ainsi dire, se contentant d'vne croix bien grosse et bien pesante pour toute richesse.
From Project Gutenberg
Your Lordship has seen by my former letters," wrote the Ambassador to Burghley from Flushing, "what shift I have been driven to for the relief of this garrison here, left 'a l'abandon;' without which mean they had all fallen into wild and shameful disorder, to her Majesty's great disgrace and overthrow of her service.
From Project Gutenberg
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