Example sentences for: forgo

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

  • The paper points out that the privilege issue presents Starr with a Hobson's choice: fight the notion and divert significant resources to a long court battle, or don't fight it and forgo some key witnesses.

  • 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.

  • You are too quick to brush off the dubious motive behind Al Gore's offer to forgo radio and TV ads in the Democratic primary.

  • The decision of the editor (who even now is hiding behind this circumlocution, but yes, it was me) to forgo a bibliography should not have prevented him from acknowledging this indispensable work.

  • It was harder to forgo the beautiful ones--elegant, blond Clare, for instance, with her hard-won hauteur and Lilly Daché hats and petal-white skin.


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