A normal child would have abandoned the task long since.

As his list neared 500 items, he abandoned the task as hopeless.

Most of the other humans had completely abandoned the task, but Father Timothy continued to try.

Eventually he would abandon the task, and sit down in the dust, watching the shadows emerge from their crevices at the foot of the blocks.

Storton's eyes widened and he abandoned the task of blowing down his pipe.

I tried to take it in, then abandoned the task and went back to my main priority.

We were abandoning the task of communicating with him when you awoke.

At last he abandoned the task as impossible and resigned himself to revealing the truth.

Has the Commission abandoned the task of updating this for good?

He would have abandoned the task altogether, had not some sixth sense told him that it was worth while to persist.