Example Sentences

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The majority forswears any interest in going after other rights similarly grounded in the right to privacy.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

Wotan builds Valhalla to compensate for a loveless marriage; Alberich forswears love to forge the Ring.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

That is the voice of today's latest edge, which forswears normality and happiness for the inevitable doom.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

Dr. Volkow generally forswears any interest in politics per se, but midway through a long day of meetings last month she sighed and acknowledged, “science and politics are intertwined.”

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2011

But he follows, or rather leaps into my wheeled chair, and forswears merrier company even now, to be near me.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir