forsaken

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2023

I often heard my grandfather quote Psalm 37:25 when he spoke of his family: “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry