Sentence examples for basically given up from inspiring English sources

By Sunday morning, Yankees reliever Dave Robertson had basically given up on making his first All-Star team.

At 50, he had basically given up trying to socialize and was trapped in an unhappy marriage.

Mr. Stafford said they had basically given up on calling the Prince George's County Police Department or the State Police.

And yet she's basically given up on Hollywood: "I was never a money-maker," she's forced to admit.

"They've basically given up the battle of competing with Time and Newsweek directly and carved out this niche of being the ranker".

Lizza's take: Beyond cap-and-trade, conservatives love this guy so much, and are hyping [him] up as a future Presidential candidate, that he's just basically given up on his political future in New Jersey.

The Soviets, basically, give up.

"I basically gave up on acting because trying to get an agent was impossible.

"Now they're actually going right into the space that they basically gave up to the imports 30 years ago.

"It was a very difficult and low-yielding synthesis, and they basically gave up," Dr. Carlson said.

Monfils basically gives up the ghost and swishes an apology of a drop-shot towards the net.