Example sentences for: forsworn

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

  • (He has forsworn cereal analogies.)

  • Another TV gesture of regret is voluntarily giving up a desired pleasure, most often tickets to The Rock Concert forsworn by a chastened teen.

  • Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.

  • For Degas, who had forsworn self-portraiture for 30 years, this double image has the weight of allegory: The aging and celibate artist has purchased a score of creative years at the price of physical collapse.

  • Its strategy is faulty: Member countries are reluctant, Serbia is strong militarily, and NATO has forsworn the use of ground troops.


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