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Example sentences for: sever

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The Football Association, soccer's ruling body, fired him after he refused to sever connections with Eileen Drewery, a faith healer.
She has no intention of leaving, first because her doubt is not enough to sever her from her husband and children and second because that's not the kind of story it is.
If a relationship is troublesome or destructive for whatever reason, and it's comfortable to sever communication, there is no reason to stay yoked to a bad situation as though one were part of a team of mules.
The first hour, in which Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner) attempts to sever his ties with W.S.
His case against feminist Holocaust studies can be reduced to three main objections: 1) Alter's argument, made with less subtlety; 2) a somewhat crankish concern that the "object of such exercises" as feminist Holocaust scholarship is "to sever Jewish women, in their own minds, from their families as well as from the larger Jewish community"; and 3) the sense that such treatment violates taste, decorum, and "human decency."