Example Sentences

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In coming to America years earlier, he had forsaken his birthright: As the oldest son of five children, he was in line to inherit the pachinko business.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

I wondered if I was doing something crazy, trying to fix all the things he had broken and clean his messes, save the creatures he had forsaken.

From Salon • May 2, 2020

As some popular accounts, including “Tombstone,” the 1993 movie starring Kurt Russell, would have it, Wyatt and his older brother Virgil had forsaken their previous profession as lawmen, but that’s not exactly true.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2020

Time and again throughout history, civilizations wish they still had what they had forsaken:

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2017

“We’re never going to get picked up,” Katz announced despondently after cars had forsaken us for fifteen minutes.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson