forswearing

Example Sentences

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It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

For Foley, who months earlier had pleaded with Attorney General William Barr to pursue justice by forswearing the death penalty, the fact the case was proceeding at all felt miraculous.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2020

Let’s instead assume that this really does bother her and at the same time that forswearing garlic forever would be a serious burden for you.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2020

In the campaign, Mr. Johnson stuck to a disciplined strategy, forswearing the clownishness that has characterized his political career.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019

Finally, it is not power, which, the last expression of antagonism and created only to defend the law, could stand in your way only by forswearing itself.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)