Example Sentences

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“Typically, the immediate consequence is forfeiting the earnest money deposit you put down,” Will McSeveney says.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

So you can say whatever you want, but if look at the College Football Playoff definition of what’s going to happen if that happens in one of their games, that team is forfeiting.

From Fox News • Dec. 30, 2021

Soon Americans may discover that the only thing more vexing than exercising dominance is forfeiting it.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

With the extra $11 million they are getting from the salary Cano is forfeiting, they have some flexibility.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2018

A man who elects to publish direct, instead of running his story through the columns of a newspaper, is forfeiting, in other words, three-quarters of his income.

From The British Barbarians by Allen, Grant