forsake

“We believe that this was a blessing from God—proof that the Lord does not forsake us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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

It’s the one noticeable design misstep in Daniel’s production, but it reflects the character’s desire to become part of a world that has always seemed ready to forsake him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2024

“Say ‘I forsake my sister Jude,’” Nicasia tells her.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

We agreed to disagree that my favorite Nolan film, “Interstellar,” forsakes emotion for an intricate plot.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

A coal miner’s wife forsakes him and their family for misfortune with a nervous petty thief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 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

I was part of that generation of Latinos who forsook the Republican Party.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

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

“American spray paint companies basically forsook graffiti in the ’90s,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2020

Foster Huntington, 32, was a designer for Ralph Lauren before he forsook city life to build a treehouse and a skatepark on land in Washington State, among other adventures.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2020

“The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago,” said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Now that they’ve forsaken the last obstacle to selling out entirely, they will likely lose many more.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2025

Among the indignities a newly vulnerable Mickey suffers, each one spurts out of a stuttering printer and flops to the floor, forsaken.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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

An older woman looks at him and straightaway diagnoses his problem: “Have you forsaken your soul?” she asks.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

"She thinks you can do miracles. She takes your power as a sign that the gods haven't forsaken her child."

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

"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

Now, 108 years later, the latest incarnation of that league – the PAC 12 – may be fading into sports history as Washington joins several other universities in forsaking the venerable West Coast athletic collective.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

Chinese companies have no intention of forsaking the American economy, still the largest on earth.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

She turns to me, forsaking her view for a moment.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman