foresworn

Example Sentences

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During a playoff winning streak, they foreswore their usual red jerseys and wore navy blue.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 18, 2019

Even John Sylvan, the inventor of the K-cup single-serving coffee pod, America's biggest selling capsule, last year foreswore his invention.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2016

It was the kind of pessimistic cling-to-a-lead stance—whether owing to strategy or being outclassed—that Jürgen Klinsmann foreswore.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2014

But Pollard’s capture was a traumatic event in relations between Israel and the United States, offending Washington so deeply and obviously that Israeli officials solemnly foreswore any future intelligence operations inside U.S. borders.

From Time • Apr. 1, 2014

I'll swear you shall not go in: you know I foreswore being alone with you.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert