How to Use forswear in a Sentence

forswear

verb
  • She forswore her allegiance to the old regime.
  • He foreswore cigarettes as his New Year's resolution.
  • Many of you have already forsworn, what seemed at the time, to be the unfathomable.
    — Adrienne M. Buckley, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2020
  • As part of that second phase, the West might ask Ukraine to forswear nuclear weapons.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Which states plainly that the Oulipo is a group that forswears ideology.
    — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Trump may have forsworn retail politics in the baby-kissing, chit-chatting sense of the term.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
  • More than 4,000 of them signed a letter saying Google should forswear all defense projects.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 29 May 2018
  • It was forced to forswear many of the perks that similar developing countries enjoyed.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • But driving on the autobahn, long stretches of which forswear any speed limit at all, can be a chilling experience for the timid.
    — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And while no nation has declared its intention to build fully autonomous weapons, few have forsworn them either.
    — Paul Scharre, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • The Bruce Wayne of this universe has forsworn being Batman in an attempt to find a better work-life balance.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Neither Washington nor Kyiv is ready to forswear Ukraine’s sovereign right to choose its alliances.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • These talented women are allowing their faces to age, more or less, visibly (and naturally) but refuse to forswear their highlights.
    — Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Beijing, in other words, got Washington to forswear one of its best economic tools just as China was wielding its own leverage.
    — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The logic to this argument is that a democratic and pro-Western Iran would forswear nuclear weapons (and mean it) and back away from supporting proxies.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Many women did so, forswearing British wares, spinning flax on town greens, and swapping handwritten patriotic verse while drinking herbal-tea substitutes.
    — Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Designer Giorgio Armani has forsworn using real animal fur in all his lines, winning praise from animal rights activists.
    — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2018
  • O’Rourke’s example increases likelihood that at least one of those contenders will look to distinguish themselves by forswearing corporate cash.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Jan. 2018
  • And the Fed shouldn’t forswear tools like QE because in the future, conventional tools may not be enough to restore full employment and 2% inflation.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 July 2017
  • Haynes spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about making a movie for Amazon, working with child actors and forswearing dialogue.
    — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • And the United States would accept and be prepared to recognize the current Iranian government, forswearing attempts at regime change.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Solutions for Change, a stubbornly independent nonprofit that’s been at this line of work for 20 years, disagrees and has recently turned its back on large grants rather than forswear its principles.
    — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • One possible ploy might be to forswear missiles that can hit American cities but to preserve a small nuclear arsenal, perhaps under international supervision.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Having forsworn working again with the 9th Division, the unit was deployed north of Intisar, to support the advance led by the Golden Division.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
  • But even if scientists forswear FBS, cultured meat may not be wholly acceptable to one group of potential customers—vegans—because the animal can never be completely removed from the process.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The new Speaker, a politician who opposes basic human rights for many Americans and who would forswear his oath to the Constitution to keep a dishonest demagogue in power, represents an extreme minority of the country.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In France, the National Rally party of Marine Le Pen—who is notably obsessed with cats—has talked up the healing power of touching animals (among other such positions) but will not forswear foie gras.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026

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