forsook
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Instead, Latinos forsook movement politics in this election and seem poised to do the same in the future.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2021
Foster Huntington, 32, was a designer for Ralph Lauren before he forsook city life to build a treehouse and a skatepark on land in Washington State, among other adventures.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2020
But then, after a single term, she became pregnant and forsook academia.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2020
And for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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