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Example sentences for "forsake"

Lexicographically close words:
forrests; forrin; forrit; forrud; forsaid; forsaken; forsakes; forsaketh; forsaking; forsan
  1. Diuerse others were compelled to forsake the realme at the same time, [Sidenote: Normans banished the realme.

  2. And they must also have felt how ruinous was this rejoinder to their own demand that the people should forsake a teacher when they rejected him.

  3. But they who would empty the death of Jesus of its sacrificial import, and leave only the attraction and inspiration of a sublime life and death, must answer the hard questions, How came God to forsake the Perfect One?

  4. But St. Luke informs us that to forsake even a wife for Christ's sake, was a deed worthy of being rewarded an hundredfold.

  5. How incredible must it then have seemed to them, thrilling with real sympathy and loyal gratitude, that they should forsake such a Master.

  6. Therefore behold I will take you away carrying you, and will forsake you, and the city which I gave to you, and to your fathers, out of my presence.

  7. We would have cured Babylon, but she is not healed: let us forsake her, and let us go every man to his own land: because her judgment hath reached even to the heavens, and is lifted up to the clouds.

  8. O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not.

  9. Sound by lee and lonely lake, Never shall this heart forsake The bonnie wilds of Scotia.

  10. Though fleets forsake thy breast, And millions sink to rest-- Of the bright and glorious west Still the soul.

  11. Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

  12. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now.

  13. As he warmed with his subject, his hands would forsake his pockets and would enforce his ideas by awkward gestures, but would very soon seek their easy resting-places.

  14. But thou erthe forsake the erthe, Or that thou hennys goo, Vnder erthe for lust of erthe Thou schalt haue sorow and woo.

  15. And some for pleasure or for peace forsake their purposes and goals And barter for the scarlet joys of ease and pomp, their knightly souls.

  16. He will not forsake the cause of the present king; and should he fall, would rather turn to Akbar than to us, from whom he expects nothing but mischief to his country and people.

  17. But even should it be a threat in earnest, it has not the power to make me forsake the sacred duty that is laid upon me.

  18. My dear mother assured us that the Lord would provide; that he would not forsake those who put their trust in him.

  19. Corbett said that for fifteen years he had been laid aside every year with that terrible scourge of the East--dysentery; and the doctors at last gave a definite decision that he must return at once to the homeland and forsake China.

  20. The truth would not serve her purpose (not that she had given it a fair trial), and therefore she would forsake the straight path for that other one which hath many turnings.

  21. There are many who have not the courage to forsake goodness, even for a moment.

  22. Although she does not attend to secrecy, in selecting a situation for her nest, she will forsake it if the eggs have been handled.

  23. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

  24. Did I wish myself on shore, Never to forsake it more?

  25. I sold the last remnant of my wardrobe and my few remaining books, and quitted my dwelling, to forsake it again for another, after a few days.

  26. At least he learned that it was in pure disgust of the career itself that I desired to forsake it, and not with any prospect of other advancement in life.

  27. I hope there is no danger that you should forsake us.

  28. May the angel of fortitude never forsake her, as she seems half inclined to do her poor.

  29. No, said I; it relates to one who I did not think would have been so ready to forsake his friends!

  30. Thou lovest me, Naloko, and to thee I am devoted, Shouldst thou forsake me, sleep would forever forsake me.

  31. Peter was as brave and braver when he went and hid himself, than when he boasted, 'Though all should forsake Thee, yet will not I!

  32. Nor found he spoke to wind, and chased a cloud,) "Why thus forsake your bride!

  33. Do we not see them stick to Hopkins and Sternhold's Psalms, and forsake those of David, I mean Sandys his translation of them?

  34. It is by labouring with the heart, by the inward aspiration of the soul, that thou wilt learn to forsake the base things of earth and to rise to what is heavenly and Divine.

  35. Then does he forsake himself, his own strength and powers, and every creature, and hides himself in complete abandonment in the bosom of God.

  36. What did she care whether Feodor was a prince or a poor officer, so that he only loved her, and would never again forsake her?

  37. Only wait until public opinion has condemned you, and the people, too, will forsake you.

  38. Bertram sighed, and had not the courage to go and forsake Elise in this anxious and critical moment.

  39. I will forsake you forever unless you comply with my wishes in this affair.

  40. Forsake me not in this hour of extremity, but send Thy ministering angels to strengthen and sustain my spirit, that it faint not with the consuming flesh!

  41. When he returned to the Manor, however, peace seemed to forsake him.

  42. That some of the famous Harrow families, who owed so much to the School, should forsake it, seemed to Egerton the unpardonable sin.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forsake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; abjure; back; chuck; defect; deny; depart; desert; discard; drop; emigrate; evacuate; fail; forgo; forsake; give; jettison; jilt; kiss; leave; lurch; maroon; part; pass; quit; recant; relinquish; renounce; repudiate; resign; scrap; secede; spare; supersede; surrender; swear; throw; vacate; withdraw