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Example sentences for "abandoned"

Lexicographically close words:
abajo; abaka; abalone; abalones; abandon; abandoning; abandonment; abandonner; abandons; abaout
  1. The Enimies so soone as they were seased and possessed of the place, without any resistaunce of the places abandoned by Godefrey, caried into the Citty at their pleasure all their victualles.

  2. At the sounde of whych heauye message, Rhomeo begann woefullye to Lamente, as though hys spyrites gryeued wyth the Tormente of his Passion at that instant would haue abandoned his Bodye.

  3. Monarche able to washe away the faulte of hys Wyfe whych hath abandoned him contrary to the duety and honesty whych the vndefyled bed requyreth?

  4. There's an abandoned lumber camp down here, if I'm not mistaken, and if we've made the right turns we ought to be south of Lamar and near the railroad.

  5. At the abandoned bridge he threw himself down and gazed off through a narrow cut that afforded a glimpse of the Springs, where the electric lights gleamed as one lamp.

  6. There is a saddled horse hitched to the other side of our abandoned bridge.

  7. He had expected Armitage to condemn the place in bitter language, but the proprietor of the abandoned hunting preserve was in excellent spirits, and whistled blithely as he drew out his keys.

  8. General Crittenden had abandoned a vast quantity of arms and munitions for which he had not sufficient transportation, and the Union army had taken possession of them in the morning.

  9. A battery of artillery in retreating had mired one of its guns in one of the soft places in the field, and had abandoned it, as stated by General Crittenden.

  10. You, like myself, are abandoned by those of your race and blood, and condemned to remain alone--alone for ever?

  11. The Sparrowhawk was a man of tried courage and energy; still, finding himself alone, abandoned by all those he had loved, a momentary feeling of discouragement and cold rage almost turned him mad.

  12. Why thus torture the man who acted as father to the abandoned child?

  13. From Ironbridge, two days later, they sailed with a general cargo for Stourwich, the Seamew picking her way carefully down the river by moonlight, followed at an ever-increasing distance by a cork fender of abandoned aspect.

  14. His feelings choked him, and after a feeble attempt to translate them into words, he abandoned the attempt, and turning a deaf ear to Sam's appeal for information, rolled into his bunk and fell fast asleep.

  15. Miss Gething, after a brave trial, abandoned the contest and lowered her eyes.

  16. With a shudder he called to mind, how utterly and completely he had abandoned himself to the lure of the sorceress, how little short of a miracle had saved him.

  17. If it were a suggestion that the church should be searched, ere they abandoned it!

  18. He rushed through narrow and deserted streets, abandoned of the living.

  19. She utterly abandoned herself to him now, suffering his endearments and kisses like a thing of stone and thereby rousing his passions to their highest pitch.

  20. Drawing their cowls about their faces, they abandoned the main streets, Tristan conducting his charge through narrow alleys, deserted of the living.

  21. Had he abandoned his watch for two penitents who had perchance been locked in the church?

  22. He abandoned the chest and gave his attention to the cupboard.

  23. What would she think of him who seemed to have abandoned her in the hour of dire distress, when she needed him above all men on earth?

  24. Ruth also had urged her to withdraw from any active part in the wedding, strengthening her advice with the assurance that when a friendship began to decline it ought to be abandoned at once.

  25. Men were removing the faded flowers or sitting at the abandoned table eating and drinking.

  26. He was called to the Scottish bar and rode on circuit with the court, but, becoming master of his destiny, he abandoned law for literature.

  27. His convalescence in an abandoned mining camp is recorded in "The Silverado Squatters" (1883).

  28. At this moment, when all hope was dead in their hearts, when they had both abandoned the last expectation of ever seeing their father and brother alive again, there came to their ears a far, faint cry.

  29. While the family all felt great anxiety about the abandoned wagon and its precious contents it was impossible to go after it until the weather moderated.

  30. Many of their neighbors abandoned their newly located homesteads and fled for protection to the agencies or towns, but this Joshua Peniman refused to do.

  31. On the retreat that morning we had passed an abandoned wagon loaded with intrenching tools, and by order each company had taken two spades from the wagon, the men relieving each other in carrying them.

  32. That part of Cox's line broke in a panic at the sight of what was coming and abandoned a good line of breastworks before firing a single shot.

  33. His impulse was to overtake her, but after a few rapid strides he abandoned the intention.

  34. I don't see why you should be abandoned in your need any more than you're willing to abandon me.

  35. He was thoroughly honest and true, and he was devoted to her service; but, after some reflection, she abandoned this idea.

  36. When Jephthah abandoned those stony fields for Judith's more productive acres, he definitely turned his own back upon this feature, but Blatch Turrentine revived the illegal activities and enlisted the old man's boys in them.

  37. On the 3rd of December, Lowarnar, a town to the eastward, was entered, and on the 5th a move was made on the stockaded town of Gundomar, which was abandoned by the enemy on the approach of the force.

  38. His move had completely disconcerted the enemy, who abandoned outright the attempt to delay the progress of the flotilla, and made off at full speed to the island.

  39. After half an hour of this, Tom came to the conclusion, from the sudden cessation of the enemy's fire, that they had abandoned their positions and fallen back into the belt of woodland nearer the fort.

  40. The besiegers had clearly abandoned all ideas of an assault in force, but every now and then a bullet or a slug would whistle over the stockade, and more than one man was killed.

  41. He makes a memento, he said, for the most abandoned priest, and for the soul that is next to be released.

  42. Now the heathens have not known the way of justice, whereas heretics and Jews have abandoned it after knowing it in some way.

  43. Christ's servants may flee from one city to another, when one of them is specially sought out by persecutors: in order that the Church be not abandoned by others who are not so sought for.

  44. When, however, the same danger threatens all, those who stand in need of others must not be abandoned by those whom they need.

  45. She was in a truly melancholy state; she was lost to all the comforts of this life, and conceived herself abandoned for ever by God.

  46. Instead of which he grew tired of her, and finally abandoned her.

  47. With a numb chill at her heart she abandoned all hope of Pelleas, and turned to face the inevitable, and Gorlois her lord.

  48. There was a short scuffle before the girl abandoned herself to him with a kind of sensuous languor.

  49. But who would provide for a country that abandoned every thing else for the purpose of heavenly contemplations?

  50. The spirit of God must then have abandoned his church; else why did its ministers fall into this error, and dispute afterwards about so fundamental a dogma of the Christian religion?

  51. May you be abandoned by the pewter and the pipe.

  52. She told her mistress so, and considered that she was only doing her duty as a religious and well brought-up young woman in warning that abandoned person of the danger of giving way to habits of dishonesty.

  53. Then, suddenly making up his mind to see Dot, he gave his cabman an address in the vicinity of the Regent’s Park, and abandoned himself to his fate.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abandoned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; afire; alone; amok; antiquated; antique; archaic; ardent; available; bellowing; berserk; boundless; burning; castaway; committed; contaminated; corrupt; debased; debauched; decadent; dedicated; defenseless; degenerate; delirious; demoniacal; depraved; derelict; deserted; desolate; devoted; devout; discarded; discontinued; disowned; disregarded; dissipated; dissolute; distracted; disused; earnest; earthy; ecstatic; egregious; empty; enormous; enraptured; exaggerated; excessive; exorbitant; extravagant; extreme; fabulous; faithful; fancy; fast; fatherless; feral; ferocious; fervent; fervid; fierce; fiery; flaming; forgone; forlorn; forsaken; forsworn; frantic; free; frenzied; friendless; furious; gallant; gay; gigantic; gluttonous; haggard; hearty; heated; helpless; high; homeless; hot; howling; hysterical; ignored; immoderate; immoral; impassioned; incontinent; inordinate; intemperate; intense; intent; intoxicated; irrepressible; isolated; lax; left; licentious; lone; lonely; lonesome; loose; lost; loyal; mad; maniacal; marooned; missed; monstrous; motherless; neglected; obsolete; old; open; orgiastic; orphan; out; outcast; outdated; outmoded; outrageous; outworn; overgrown; overlooked; overmuch; overweening; passionate; perfervid; perverted; polluted; possessed; profligate; promiscuous; rabid; raging; rakish; rampant; ranting; raving; ravished; rejected; released; relinquished; renounced; reprobate; resigned; resolute; retired; riotous; roaring; rotten; sensual; serious; shabby; shameless; shelved; shunted; sidetracked; sincere; slighted; solitary; spirited; steep; stiff; storming; stray; superannuated; superseded; tainted; transported; unasked; unattended; unbridled; unchaperoned; unchecked; unconscionable; unconsidered; unconstrained; uncontrollable; uncontrolled; uncouth; uncurbed; undone; undue; unfilled; unforced; ungoverned; uninhabited; uninhibited; unmanned; unmeasured; unmuzzled; unoccupied; unpeopled; unreasonable; unregarded; unreserved; unrestrained; unruly; unsolicited; untaken; untenanted; untended; unused; unwatched; vacant; vehement; villainous; violent; voluptuous; waived; wanton; warm; warped; wild; wrong; zealous