forswearing

Example Sentences

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It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

For Foley, who months earlier had pleaded with Attorney General William Barr to pursue justice by forswearing the death penalty, the fact the case was proceeding at all felt miraculous.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2020

So I can understand how someone who doesn’t would find it really difficult to bear—but I also know that forswearing garlic entirely would mean a real reduction in joy and pleasure for someone who does.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2020

Hurd, who is not forswearing public life, insists, “I’m just getting started.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

In 1817 an Act was passed, which, with admirable policy, excused Catholic officers, naval and military, from forswearing transubstantiation.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances