abandon

In a sentence

Six example sentences with abandon, each labelled with its topic.

• The drummer played the final chorus with such abandon that two sticks split before the song ended.

  Music

• The painter covered the canvas with joyful abandon, flinging color across it without pausing to plan any composition.

  Art

• The wedding scene works because the guests dance with total abandon while the camera simply refuses to cut away.

  Movies

• The bench unit plays with abandon in garbage time, launching shots from the logo that the starters would never attempt.

  Basketball

• My grandmother seasoned with abandon, tossing in chili by the handful and never once glancing at a recipe.

  Cooking

• Sandbox mode lets kids build with abandon, stacking towers past the clouds without worrying about resources or gravity.

  Gaming

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More Academic words

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