Example sentences for: disowned

How can you use “disowned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To sustain the myth that only unsupported mujahideen guerrillas were involved, "Pakistani officers and soldiers killed in combat have been disowned by their generals, their services unacknowledged; even a decent burial has been denied them," the paper said.

  • What's appalling is rather that now that their heroes have stumbled, they have disowned them so utterly.

  • Mohammadi also disowned Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, whom the students originally supported, saying he listened less and less to the people who voted him in and was now only concerned with hanging on to power.


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