Example Sentences

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The world's biggest boy band BTS will be abandoning their fandom "army" to join the South Korean military for national service, their agents say.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2022

“If the international community fails to act, it will be abandoning women and girls in Afghanistan, and undermining human rights everywhere,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

As a result, the Weather Service announced in March that it will be abandoning “advisory” and moving in the next three years toward plain-language headlines that focus more specifically on the phenomena and impacts expected.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021

When the last U.S. official and his 59 Marine bodyguards leave Mogadishu this week, the U.S. will be abandoning a failed investment of $1.3 billion and 44 American lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you get confused and don't keep a sharp look-out, your children, brought up upon harp and guitar playing, will be abandoning their parents, and running away secretly.

From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron