Example Sentences

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Frank says there was no hesitation about jilting Evans for Kerouac, but informing his mentor that he was forsaking him for Kerouac ‘‘was a difficult moment.’’

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2015

But just because he recorded other songwriters' songs, doesn't mean he was forsaking publishing.

From Reuters • May 31, 2010

Yeltsin's abrupt abandonment of his acting Prime Minister, free- market maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether.

From Time Magazine Archive

He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me.

From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor