Sentence examples for once gave up from inspiring English sources

In fact, she reintroduced me to a sport that I once gave up.

I once gave up anything with added sugar for a month.

This, after all, is a man who once gave up his holiday to accompany an aid convoy to Russia.

He said he once gave up a chance to attend a college because it was too far inland, away from good surfing.

But attitudes have changed, and mothers who once gave up their babies without much say are playing active roles, interviewing adoption agencies, screening and often meeting prospective parents.

A waitress asks him if he might be interested in the story of her "friend", who after 50 years of silence has just revealed she once gave up a child for adoption.

The Alabama Symphony is the happy reincarnation of an orchestra that was once given up for dead.

The Hudson River, like many American streams, was once given up for dead but today abounds with life.

The great thing about this book, though, is that for all its accurate sniping, Parks never once gives up on the truths that the best writing can communicate.

By contrast, this film's other language, Latin, is faring rather well for an ancient tongue once given up for lost.

It is proof of what many in Africa call the Lazarus effect: Communities once given up for dead have been brought back to life, and millions of men, women and children are alive to build their futures.