Example sentences for: relinquished

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

  • the uniformed services, recognize that promotional material received by a uniformed service member traveling on official business at government expense belongs to the government and must be relinquished in accordance with service regulations.

  • Habibie has apparently decided not to run to remain in office, but the bigger news that affects many people and concerns the U.N. and the countries currently supplying peacekeeping forces in East Timor is that Indonesia's legislature has formally relinquished the nation's claim to the region.

  • Sancho IV took Gibraltar in 1310, but the Christians later relinquished their prize, and the Moors held on to it until 1462.

  • Pinochet peacefully relinquished power, his former opponents are pleading for his return.

  • And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship.


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