forsake

Example Sentences

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His would-be challengers have been sizing up political billiard balls for the possibility of an increasingly tricky bank shot: persuading Republican voters to forsake him, while presenting themselves as the movement’s heir apparent.

From New York Times

Me, I take the subway — and all the way in the back of the garden, next to the Jeep, Hector Guimard’s circa-1900 entrance to the Paris Métro lurks like a forsaken urban alternative.

From New York Times

Campaign spokesman Matt Wolking said Youngkin made a conscious decision to forsake the money and run for office because “he was frustrated seeing his home state of Virginia fall behind.”

From Washington Post

He turned professional at 14, supplanting Phelps by one year as the youngest male swimmer to forsake his amateur status.

From New York Times

With his interplay of light, movement and sound, Zhou choreographs grand emotions and stirring pathos: the rage of a woman scorned, the desperation of a protective mother, the lost innocence of a forsaken child.

From New York Times