forsake
verb (used with object)
to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert.
were forsaking
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past progressiveof forsake.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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From Europe, where thousands were forsaking their homelands to work in the U.S., came other shipments of labor for Hawaii.
From Time Magazine Archive
She stared again as though her senses were forsaking her.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
She felt as if reason were forsaking her, and, but for her determined efforts to resist it, such a crisis might have occurred.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
The remnants of Alfred's self-control were forsaking him.
From Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo
The nobles of Austria were forsaking the older religion.
From History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green
