am abandoning
- present progressive of abandon (1st person singular).
Example Sentences
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This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’”
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2025
My friends may raise their eyebrows, thinking I am abandoning my proselytizing for Open Access.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 18, 2012
I see the same process when I am abandoning a campsite, and local people come to scavenge what is left.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
For you I am abandoning my husband, my children, my family.
From The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de
He could say, "I am abandoning the stage: I mean to join myself with men whose intercourse, in every sense, must lead me to a sure and suitable activity."
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
