forsake

If Ms. Josephson wants her students to forsake communities, she needs to convince them that their lives as successful individuals will be better than their lives as successful members of the collective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But Iran's governing football body has accused Australia of kidnapping the players and forcing them to forsake their home nation against their will.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

“You don’t have to forsake your life to make great stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

The teaching that God will “never leave or forsake you” is found multiple times in the Bible.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024

Only when she saw the steep stairway disappearing into a bottomless black hole did her courage forsake her for a moment.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

In pursuit of his mad crush, the hypermasculine Hudson, Randy now forsakes his beloved campy theater friends, cutting his hair and taking up sports as the buff, tough Dell.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

In the process, Serse forsakes his betrothed, Amastre, who spends much of the opera fulminating while dressed as a man.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Zumthor and Govan are clearly attempting to place the art-going experience on a higher, newer plane, one that forsakes the normal strategies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2020

Director X’s “Superfly” transplants the 1972 Blaxploitation classic from Harlem streets to suburban Atlanta mansions, flips Curtis Mayfield’s soul score for Future’s hip-hop soundtrack and forsakes the original’s politically charged grit for shallow music-video indulgence.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2018

There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The scripted sequel is the triumphant homecoming of those who moved on but never forsook their roots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021

But then, after a single term, she became pregnant and forsook academia.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

And there’s the tale of the team member who forsook us one year to hike the John Muir trail — and was airlifted out after a medical emergency.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2019

And for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

It’s a fleeting tableau, but it reveals the whole story: even the most forsaken creation reaches for connection the moment he’s given something warm to hold in his hands.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

He goes on to say they were "looking forward to a day scampering" and made the decision to leave their packs because they spent two days "lugging them up this God forsaken valley".

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

Not only have electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles replaced gas-guzzling cars, but many people have forsaken car-ownership altogether, in favor of much more economic and widely available solutions like e-bikes, robo-taxis and public transit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

Why have so many of us forsaken the remedial power of language?

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023

During the years when Tres Marias had been abandoned, Pedro Segundo had naturally assumed command of the small tribe that had survived in these forsaken lands.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

"I think Cam is a one-major guy if you go to LIV because you are forsaking your competitiveness for money," Clayton told me in 2023.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

Even more than an internal feeling, truly great art produces new conversations, and this one about how to create without forsaking yourself in the process is only just beginning.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

He said a schism would amount to forsaking the rich spiritual legacy of the UMC in Africa and would severe its valuable international bonds.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

Crowds gathered on London streets as Gandhi visited the East End, where he called attention to the area’s poor by forsaking a hotel and staying at a community house.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë