Example sentences for: forgo

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

  • They pledged support for campaign-finance reform and promised to forgo unrestricted donations ("soft money") if they won their respective nominations.

  • Women who can command earnings that are 95 percent as high as those of men may decide not to have children rather than forgo those earnings.

  • The second exception is that we are to forgo using the prospective budget surplus for tax cuts or expenditure increases (other than those proposed by the president) "until we have a solution to the long-term financing challenge facing Social Security."

  • A female editor or correspondent was still something of a novelty act in the '30s and '40s, a luxury that male employers could forgo without compunction or a lawsuit.

  • If you are absolutely not up to having dozens of chums this year, tell them that it's just playmates from now on--and be prepared to forgo some loot.


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