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Example sentences for: quitting

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Mike Wallace has said he would consider quitting 60 Minutes to aid a McCain 2000 campaign.
“I have risen from the bar to the bench,” said a lawyer, on quitting the profession and taking up shoemaking.
Last Friday, Michael Naumann, the unusually candid and big-spending German editor-in-chief of Henry Holt, cut short the mounting gossip that he was about to be fired by quitting.
Newt and Marianne have no kids; neither does Pat Buchanan; Bob Barr, married thrice and veteran of whipped cream on waitresses; Bob Dole, ditched his first; John Podhoretz, scourge of gay monogamy, quitting his first marriage after a matter of weeks, John McLaughlin.
It would have meant quitting a brand-new, prestigious journalism job, giving up all those TV appearances, and the prospect, in just half a year, of unemployment lethally combined with extreme unpopularity.