Sentence examples for was forfeit from inspiring English sources
verb
To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.
In calling Caesar a tyrant in his letters and in On Duties, Cicero argued that his life was forfeit.
For his penance, all Stumpf had to do was forfeit $41m in restricted stock awards (stock he didn't even fully own yet).
Those judging the case held that because St-Calais never answered the formal accusation, and because he appealed to Rome, his fief, or lands, was forfeit.
John de la Pole's attainder meant his brother Edmund inherited their father's titles but much of the wealth of the duchy of Suffolk was forfeit.
The house was forfeit to the crown and then had various owners including Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who in 1552 sold it to William Clifton, a London merchant who had been assembling a Somerset estate.
The Derwentwater estate was forfeit to the Crown after the execution of James Radclyffe, third Earl of Derwentwater, in 1716 for his part in the Jacobite rebellion the previous year.
The original $10,000 bail was forfeited.
About $200 million was forfeited when the preseason was canceled.
Mr. Kramnik refused to play the game and was forfeited, shaving his lead to 3-2.
In return for these artistic gains, Shloss says, Lucia's life was forfeited.
That title was respected till the revolution, when it was forfeited by the laws of war.
