Example Sentences

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Families had been abandoning their children at orphanages hoping they’d be rescued.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2021

Despite ISIS’s advances in Kunar, though, some militants there had been abandoning the group.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

Fans had been abandoning the team for years; attendance was lingering close to the bottom of the league.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2010