Sentence examples for it was given up from inspiring English sources
Not two years ago it was given up for dead, the causes by now well known.
A quarter of a century ago, it was given up for dead.
It was given up for extinct some 60 years ago, then rediscovered in a traffic island in 2009 by a botanist driving home from a climate-change conference.
It is the most mysterious wildflower in Britain, the strangest, the rarest, the hardest to see, and it was given up for lost.
It was given up for dead when the Senate failed to act before the midterm elections.
The old way, from long ago, yes, and there is a good reason that it was given up.
It was giving up its heat to the approaching winter.
The shop's owner, Toys R UsUs, announced it was giving up its lease nearly two years early to save money, with no definite plans to open anywhere else.
Neither one realized what it was giving up.
The IOC said it was giving up seats for sale but did not say how many.
It would hardly have done so if it thought it was giving up the computing platform of the future.
