How to Use forsake in a Sentence

forsake

verb
  • Don’t forsake the things that bring you joy during this time.
    — Nicole Lipkin, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The team could stay in its longtime home and not forsake its fanbase in the city.
    — Mike D'onofrio, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Beyond his party and beyond his class this man forsook the few to serve the mass.
    — cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
  • But April is a time of hope for even the most forsaken of baseball towns.
    — Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Some of her relations shall elect to starve rather than forsake the stone that saved them from a life adrift.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • What if one of us falls in love with someone else, gets married, and then forsakes our friendship vows?
    — T.l. Andrews, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2019
  • This was not a story about someone who had forsaken her true self to please others.
    — Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Lean on your faith, knowing that God will not forsake you and that something greater is in store for you.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • In other words, try psychedelics and forsake mainstream values.
    — Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Jan. 2018
  • For the same reason many are still despondent, many have not forsaken the team of their youth.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Warren had just forsaken a campaign for re-election when the court ruled.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Except for now, when the system will forsake the Ball States of the world.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2020
  • Wearing a weave meant there was nothing to forsake, nothing to commit.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2021
  • While there are ways and room to improve, Kleiman does not want to forsake short-term success for long-term goals.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Persevere in the faith, cast off all fear and keep your heart strong; God will never forsake you.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 4 May 2022
  • In any case, getting arrested – even getting tased – shouldn’t have been enough to forsake him.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Smith appeared to spend the first three quarters intent on scoring, forsaking the rest of his game.
    — Stephen Schroats, star-telegram, 13 July 2017
  • Anthony knows that the team could commit to rebuilding and forsake the present.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The addresses forsook him, had washed away in the current of recent silence.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Harper's Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • No more waiting for Charles Barkley to forsake teams who rely on three-pointers.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The riposte to cynicism starts with politicians who forsake outrage for hope.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The rich may have to forsake some natural resources so that the poorer world can develop.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2019
  • This has become a bar staple as more and more of my friends forsake drinking in favor of long-distance running.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2025
  • While so many women are told to forsake their natural gray hair, one bride just proved gray can be the most gorgeous color of them all.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 July 2022
  • There is a brief mention of grumbling among old-timers that the neighborhood staple has forsaken its roots.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2024
  • Brazilians are also summoned to work at polling stations, and those who forsake that obligation must pay a fine.
    — Chayenne Polimedio, Vox, 6 Nov. 2018
  • But that doesn’t mean forsaking the forecast and the threat of more dipping temperatures to come.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean forsaking the forecast and the threat of more dipping temperatures to come.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The first vertebrates to forsake the seas probably didn’t walk or even crawl, however.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2017
  • A lot of times, society will relegate me to the periphery, kind of banish me and forsake me.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022

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