Example sentences for: relinquish

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

  • Israel's Cabinet approved a plan to relinquish more of the West Bank to the Palestinians.

  • They asserted as well that Congress had imposed an unconstitutional condition on recipients of federal funds by requiring them to relinquish their right to engage in abortion advocacy and counseling in exchange for the subsidy.

  • The article asserts that Rose's success at 60 Minutes II depends "on his ability to relinquish those very qualities that make him interesting and distinctive": his "harried, stumblebum" style.

  • He also takes whacks at those old chestnuts and/or and ss . Under the heaviest duress, such as the threat of boiling in ink, lawyers might relinquish all these; but they will fight to the bitter end and finally die at the barricades before surrendering their whereases . Never mind that, the author says; Whereas is consistently vague, meaning variously `the fact is,' `although,' `considering that,' `on the contrary,' and `that being the case,' with many shadings in between.

  • You're someone who still thinks it wouldn't be such an awful thing to have a single phone company reaching from coast to coast, because it means you need only one phone card to call anywhere in the country, who would willingly relinquish exciting new features such as dialing 11 extra digits in order to protect yourself against "surprise charges" by "no name" telephone companies (a fun service my local carrier recently introduced).


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