Example Sentences

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Many of us will have abandoned our goals by mid-January.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

The risk is not only that the ad technology at issue may be obsolete, but also that current and would-be rivals will have abandoned or avoided the market.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2022

Joe won’t return the call, and he hopes that by Saturday the caller will have abandoned the idea.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2015

"The business hours are over," he thought; "bankers and lawyers will have abandoned the money-getting and mischief-making toils of the day; and I must stay at the inn till to-morrow."

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

"You are depressed in spirits to-day," said Jean d'Alberg consolingly, "the sun has gone down, and the darkness always makes you feel blue, but to-morrow you will have abandoned these gloomy reflections."

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]