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How to use forsake in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb

Forsake means to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something). Example: “Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.”

Examples of forsake by meaning

verbTo abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

  • There may be nothing noble in renouncing one's country, in abandoning one's home, in forsaking one's people; but is there not something remarkable in this great move one makes?1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the first...
  • After the junction at Saincaize the line forsakes the Loire, which it has followed for many miles, for its great tributary the Allier, and runs through St.1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN...
  • "You will not be forsaken.2010 January 14, Helene Cooper, “Obama pledges aid to Haiti”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...

More sentences with forsake

  • Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.From the entry neither
  • An alternative style forsakes italics altogether and assigns a dialogue tag: This is going nowhere, he thought.2011, Deborah Halverson, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons. From the entry dialogue tag
  • Why have people forsaken martinis, Manhattans, old fashioneds, and other preprandials of long-standing popularity?1978, Horizon, volume 21, New York, N.Y.: American Heritage Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 189. From the entry preprandial
  • Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 418. From the entry codger
  • Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather!1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex. From the entry begather
  • Unfortunately the pain is a boiling frog, as we can never know the investment and growth opportunities we will forsake.2018 August 22, Nassim Khadem, Patrick Hatch, quoting Paul Abbey, “‘Boiling frog’: Business, tax experts slam rejection of corporate…. From the entry boiling frog
  • Or did slumber forsake thee a nightertale last?'2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 288. From the entry nightertale
  • Kay, 79, who lives in Philadelphia's Society Hill Towers, has completely forsaken the conventional three squares a day.2010 October 25, Art Carey, “Constant eating helps senior lose weight”, in The Star, retrieved 04 Jan 2021. From the entry three squares
  • A human female starts to long for all her friends and relations ashore, and eventually forsakes her merhusband.1987, Michael F. Page, Robert R. Ingpen, Encyclopedia of things that never were: creatures, places, and people. From the entry merhusband
  • He loves his sons and becomes angry when the people forsake him and take to the way of the devil.1967, Vincent Y. C. Shih, “The Classics and Confucianism”, in The Taiping Ideology: Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences (Far…. From the entry T'ien
  • Thus to Tylerize became a term meaning to forsake the party to which one owes allegiance or office.1962, Hans Sperber, Travis Trittschuh, Hans Sperber, American Political Terms. From the entry Tylerize
  • He that dwelleth between the terms hath near-hand forsaken deadliness, but not fully, and hath near-hand gotten undeadliness, but not fully.1957 [p. 1154, a. 1162], Ray C., transl. Petry, “Capitulum VII”, in Late Medieval Mysticism, translation of Benjamin by Richard of Saint…. From the entry undeadliness
  • They gathered in the towns, gave themselves over to creature pleasures, and forsook the useful habits of duty which slavery had instilled.1906, The Overland Monthly, volume 48, page 446. From the entry creaturism
  • There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of…. From the entry ten
  • "After he hauls you off to the station and leaves me alone in this forsaken neighborhood, some wereghost will come along and tear me to bits."2012, Lauren Bjorkman, Miss Fortune Cookie, page 147. From the entry wereghost
  • "Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.2009 October 22, Jan Stuart, “Fiction Chronicle”, in The New York Times. From the entry penny-dreadfulish
  • Poetry is God's arrest of Love when Love turned rebel, forsook the darkth of the human heart: then God arrested Love, and spoke He poetry, His defense of mankind.1935, Philippine Teacher: A Periodical for Philippine Progress. From the entry darkth
  • But we will not eat nor drink with the lords of Witchland, who bewrayed and forsook us their sworn confederates at the sea-fight against the Ghouls.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 30. From the entry bewray

Meaning of forsake

  1. verb To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
  2. verb To decline or refuse (something offered).
  3. verb To avoid or shun (someone or something).

Full definition of forsake

Questions about forsake in a sentence

How do you use forsake in a sentence?
Forsake is used as a verb. For example: “Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.”
What is a short sentence with forsake?
“"You will not be forsaken.”
What does forsake mean?
Forsake means to abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

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