forsook
Example Sentences
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Instead, Latinos forsook movement politics in this election and seem poised to do the same in the future.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024
As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 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
And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
