Sentence examples for to forgo something from inspiring English sources

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If so, you can then say yes to other people's requests, but only if time is available or you are making a (rare) conscious decision to forgo something in honor of something else you consciously believe to be more important.

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People are spending $60 – or, in the future, when it's in the bargain bin, more like $10 – but for most people it's a big purchase that you might forgo something else to afford.

Even so, the Lent norms for American Catholics long tended toward forgoing something (meat, chocolate, Facebook) or heightening observance (attending Mass and making confession more often).

Let's help consumers be consistent with their ethics even if means forgoing something far more delicious than battery-cage eggs.

Though traditional rhyme schemes are useful and fun to work with, feel free to forgo them for something looser, if it suits your needs.

Some people will decide that they are willing to forgo higher earnings to do something that brings them satisfaction.

He may even persuade homeowners to forgo pristine emerald sod for something more the color of money — rumpled, old money.

"Kevin told me on the day we met that he wanted to forgo smaller projects to accomplish something of genuine impact," Liu told me this summer, when I visited him in his office at Harvard.

A small room tonight can turn into the palatial suite the next night if you have shown to them that you are good-natured, ready to forgo a little now for something better tomorrow.

AS end-of-the year giving gets under way, some charities like the American Red Cross are skipping disaster pictures and switching to gentler imagery to urge people to forgo extraneous holiday gifts and, instead, give "something that means something".

I make calls from my home via the robust Verizon network, something I had to forgo in my AT&T/iPhone days.

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