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Six example sentences with abandoned, each labelled with its topic.
The abandoned mill still has its roof, though birds nest in the empty offices and saplings grow through the floor.
Architecture
Our guide led us through an abandoned fishing village where kettles still sat on stoves in three of the houses.
Travel
Drought emptied the pueblo by 1300, and the cliff dwellings stood abandoned for six centuries before ranchers stumbled onto them.
History
She spends weekends photographing abandoned rail stations, waiting for the light to reach the peeling ticket windows.
Photography
Abandoned farmland along the ridge has turned back into forest, and lynx were recorded there for the first time in a century.
Environment
Abandoned factories along the river tell the story of a town whose main industry moved overseas within a decade.
Economics
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