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

“Right. ‘I shall forsake all ties to kin and kingdom.’”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

One of these is Charles G. Koch’s 2015 book, “Good Profit,” an example of what happens when a billionaire adopts Alger’s preachy moralizing but forsakes the narrative of mobility that made him compelling.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

It’s not just that Kumar differentiates his protagonist with a fictional name and fictional novels, but that he largely forsakes plot, spending more time melding journalism into his work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 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

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

Mr. Greenberger’s title poses the question: Why has Morris been forsaken?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Even though the tournament ended only three days ago, the soccer paraphernalia feels like a forsaken Christmas tree wilting in February.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

He included photos of Pinky, headless and forsaken, but safe amid piles of overstuffed filing boxes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Underwater and forsaken, American homeowners watched as their earth-toned Tuscan kitchens and quirky bits of ornament made their homes slow to move in a glutted market.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025

The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

Even so, losing her voice didn’t mean forsaking her songwriting, a talent that led to a resourceful strategy for a comeback.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

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

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