is forsaking
- present progressive of forsake (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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She said she now carries a sense of grief that the country is forsaking its values and feels anguish about what will happen.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2016
As Tolkien reminds us over and over, the mystical race of elves is forsaking Middle-earth, taking their magic and their wonder, and leaving glum, brutish mankind in charge.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2013
The focus has been so firmly on Brooklyn that it sometimes seems as if the franchise is forsaking the New Jersey era entirely.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2012
Germany is forsaking Luther, as she sees the old light shining still undimmed.”
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
By science, in the physical world, miracles are wrought; while philosophy is forsaking its ancient metaphysical channels and pursuing others which have been opened or indicated by scientific research.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
