Sentence examples for forsake for from inspiring English sources
Putting aside arcane details, what should one make of a woman called Soul, an important character whom Tammu seems to forsake for the carnal delights of Inanna?
I am here to defend the interest of those that live in the developing world, of those that we decided to forsake for decades.
His immaculate English is forsaken for the dignity of immaculate Mandarin.
Miss Hunter is resuming her career as a singer that she forsook for practical nursing in the mid-fifties.
The will of the people should not be forsaken for expedience, the body politic not sacrificed for Realpolitik.
Breezy balconies and the dirt and insects they admitted were forsaken for high-rises bristling with wall units.
And yet fellowship with other disadvantaged people across Europe has been forsaken for allegiance to a nation riven with inequalities.
Outsiders may dismiss it, but to some Indians, just the threat of black magic reinforces a core cultural value: humility shouldn't be forsaken for stardom.
When in 1873 Benslow House was forsaken for the newly formed Girton College in Cambridge, there were 15 women enrolled.Fifteen pioneers who could study what men studied, and take the same exams as men but who could not graduate.
In all three of these novels, first love is forsaken for the commitment; Joey tells her crush repeatedly that she can't have him in her life lest she lose focus.
It was conceived during Stravinsky's honeymoon with his first wife (and first cousin), Catherine, whom he betrayed (but never forsook) for Vera 18 years before death did them part.
