Example sentences for: forgotten

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

  • Known by fellow scholars for his theories linking the Afro-American literary tradition to the African vernacular and for his excavation of forgotten masterpieces of black literature, he caught the public's eye in 1992 when he published several salutary and well-reasoned articles criticizing the inflammatory anti-Semitic rhetoric of certain black nationalists.

  • Having apparently forgotten that only last week they ruled out Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as a negotiating partner because of his indictment for war crimes, most British newspapers were taking this week's Belgrade talks very seriously.

  • Although gotten seems to have disappeared from English English except in some dialectical forms, it is still used in forgotten and begotten .

  • ' The forgotten animal in columbine is a dove, from Latin columba . The flower of the plant resembles a cluster of five doves.

  • The only negative reviews come from two critics who write for big papers--Stephen Holden of the New York Times and Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today --which makes you wonder if they've got so successful they've forgotten the torture a jammed copy machine can inflict on the lowly.


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