7 sentences with 'abandoned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word abandoned and other words derived from it.
• « Michener was an abandoned child taken in by Mabel Michener, a poor widow living in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. »
• « A mine discovered a century ago and now abandoned, it is located on the heights of Pilot Knob Mountain in the Ozarks, in the highlands of the U.S. state of Missouri. »
• « The closest Rome came to defeating the Persians was under Trajan when he managed to conquer Armenia and parts of Mesopotamia, but after his death Rome quickly abandoned those territories. »
• « The Umayyads quickly abandoned the practice of elders meeting to appoint leaders, insisting on a hereditary line of caliphs. »
• « The Abbasids abandoned Arab-centric policies and instead adopted Muslim universalism that allowed any Muslim the possibility of attaining the highest state offices and political and social importance. »
• « In the process, Machiavelli created what was arguably the first work of "political science" that abandoned the moralistic approach of how a ruler should behave as a good Christian and instead adopted a practical guide to maintaining power. »