Sentence examples for could to forget from inspiring English sources

But that was years later, when Vin Catoggio had done everything he could to forget the worst day of his life.

I lived almost hunched in preparation for the lash I knew was coming, while my brothers seemed to need to live more recklessly — they did what they could to forget about the lash, only to be re-shocked by each arrival.

To remember could be to forget the present, which could mean freedom.

After days of working long hospital shifts following Hurricane Katrina, the site became an escape, a place Donnels could go to forget the misery he had witnessed.

He said he might tell his players to at least acknowledge the slump so that they could begin to forget about it.

She could afford to forget about them, and focus on the insights stripping has given her into feminism, female behaviour and transactions in society at large.

At least Dom was gone now, and she could begin to forget about him; the time they'd spent in the house together shamed her, as if she'd been witness to some unseemly grief.

The neuropsychologist A. R. Luria, in "The Mind of a Mnemonist," described the plight of a man who was endowed with an inexhaustible memory: "The big question for him, and the most troublesome, was how he could learn to forget".

Of course, we could try to forget the past.

They couldn't afford to forget the high cost of oil dependence.

An exuberant man, with dark handsome looks, he could be hard to forget.