Example sentences for: renounced

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

  • Article 9 renounced Japan’s right to maintain armed forces, although the ambiguous wording was later taken to permit the creati on of a “self-defense” force.

  • The key to peace lay in Nixon's decision to jettison his demand that Ho Chi Minh withdraw from South Vietnam--a demand that he could have renounced four years earlier, sparing 18,000 American lives.

  • In living with Sun Ra, Arkestra members renounced drink, drugs, and sex.

  • In Turkey, Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is under a death sentence, announced that his Kurdistan Workers' Party has renounced violence and is willing to surrender its arms in exchange for Kurdish rights.

  • The emperor renounced his divinity, and US forces took formal control of Japan.


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