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

She has had to sacrifice her only child to my safety, and now, prematurely old, soured by misfortune and illness, I am abandoning her to fight for herself.

From A Girl Among the Anarchists by Meredith, Isabel

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