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

Billboard estimated that Young and Mitchell are forsaking 10% of their annual earnings to bail on Spotify.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2022

On every continent, people are forsaking their ancestral tongues for the dominant language of their region’s majority.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

It’s a compelling storytelling strategy, but the burgeoning popularity of narrative true crime stories also has critics wondering whether journalists are forsaking ethics for the sake of drama.

From Time • Mar. 17, 2015

It possesses a magnificent winter climate and a good hotel, so that people are forsaking the Riviera for this comparatively unknown paradise.

From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Wyon, Reginald