forsaking

Example Sentences

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"I think Cam is a one-major guy if you go to LIV because you are forsaking your competitiveness for money," Clayton told me in 2023.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

Even more than an internal feeling, truly great art produces new conversations, and this one about how to create without forsaking yourself in the process is only just beginning.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

Now, 108 years later, the latest incarnation of that league – the PAC 12 – may be fading into sports history as Washington joins several other universities in forsaking the venerable West Coast athletic collective.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2023

Well, Tom Brady did that, repeatedly, forsaking as much as $100 million to help the Patriots build those six Super Bowl championships in New England.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2022

For all I may be forsaking, he’s giving up a good deal more: the possibility of having more wives than one, for instance.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver