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

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 Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

The Hebrew poet is forsaking the manner of the Bible for the manner of the Arabs.

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel