Sample Sentences for
forgo
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forgo as in:  forgo the benefit

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You will have to forgo alcohol.
forgo = do without
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    She decided to forgo dessert in order to stick to her diet.
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    She decided to forgo her senior season to enter the WNBA.
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    When an apparently healthy person, especially a healthy young man, elects to forgo the enticements of the flesh, it shocks us, and we leer.  (source)
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    Another night Dub and Joe fought Spitz and made him forego the punishment they deserved.  (source)
    forego = do without
    unconventional spelling: Many think this is better spelled forgo and that this spelling should only be used to mean go before.
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    We all agreed that Soraya and I would forgo the Shirini-khori.  (source)
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    With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.  (source)
    forgoing = doing without
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    Couldn't he have forgone a weekend in Vegas?†  (source)
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    She left the pearls in place, changed back into the black high-heeled shoes, once more retouched her hair and makeup, forwent another dab of scent and then, as she opened the door, gave out a shriek of terror.†  (source)
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    If she refuses, she returns to this life to complete the task, but she forgoes glory.†  (source)
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    One day you may forego those striped pants for solid blue ones, just as Martina Crowe did today!†  (source)
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    You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone.  (source)
    forgo = do without
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    ...forgoing my normal legal fee of forty-two hundred dollars.†  (source)
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    I would have forgone killing had that been possible, and so I took care of this early, and perfunctorily, as did Claudia; and as it neared time for us to leave, I was alone in the flat, waiting for her.†  (source)
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forego as in:  the foregoing event

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After many days, when time sufficed for the people to arrange their thoughts in reference to the foregoing scene, there was more than one account of what had been witnessed on the scaffold.  (source)
foregoing = prior
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    Yet not so much predictions from without, as verifications of the foregoing things within.†  (source)
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    The foregoing tale, which is almost (but not quite!)†  (source)
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    I wanted to prepare for the 2006 season in any way I could, and in the weeks before I made my commitment to Florida, I'd spoken to Coach Meyer about foregoing my spring baseball season at Nease to enroll early at Florida, which my homeschooling made possible.†  (source)
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    It would perhaps have been faintly comic had not his misplaced jealousy contained seeds of the violent, and worse ... Earlier there was a bizarre, peripheral tragedy affecting Sophie which should be recounted here if only because of the way in which it elaborates all the foregoing.†  (source)
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    I triggered the laser as I reverted to pure self-preservation, foregoing any chance to regain control of his circuits.†  (source)
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    The foregoing investigation into the nature of the idea of Texas is put down as a prelude to my journeying across Texas with Charley in Rocinante.†  (source)
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    To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.†  (source)
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    The two men turned quickly, and saw the sickly countenance of La Carconte peering between the baluster rails; attracted by the sound of voices, she had feebly dragged herself down the stairs, and, seated on the lower step, head on knees, she had listened to the foregoing conversation.†  (source)
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    Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.†  (source)
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    About noon, however, she began—but with a caution—a dread of disappointment which for some time kept her silent, even to her friend—to fancy, to hope she could perceive a slight amendment in her sister's pulse;—she waited, watched, and examined it again and again;—and at last, with an agitation more difficult to bury under exterior calmness, than all her foregoing distress, ventured to communicate her hopes.†  (source)
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    But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.†  (source)
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    Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.†  (source)
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    The prince heard the whole of the foregoing conversation, as he sat at the table, writing.†  (source)
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foregone as in:  a foregone conclusion

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    With the lead so large, the team's victory was a foregone conclusion.
    foregone conclusion = decided in advance
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    The candidate considers loss of that district to be a foregone conclusion.
    foregone conclusion = a result that is certain to happen
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    Above it a portrait of some foregone officer in a crumbling frame.  (source)
    foregone = former (in the past)
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    Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together; thoughts like these—and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowledge or define—threw an awe about the child as she came onward.  (source)
    foregone = done in the past
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    "What's that, foregone conclusion then, you reckon, sir?" said the barman.†  (source)
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    There was the usual waiting and the important air assumed by the doctor, with which he was so familiar (resembling that which he himself assumed in court), and the sounding and listening, and the questions which called for answers that were foregone conclusions and were evidently unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that "if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything — we know indubitably how it has to be done, always in the same way for everybody alike."†  (source)
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    Due to the unseasonably warm weather, they'd foregone sleeping in tents—which gave her an unparalleled view of the capital.†  (source)
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    I hardly had time to think about my own answer—why, it was taken to be a foregone conclusion.†  (source)
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    Those were foregone times.†  (source)
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    Two weeks earlier, on the first day of Williams's third trial, the outcome had seemed a foregone conclusion—so much so that the Savannah Morning News had announced in a weary headline, WILLIAMS FACES YET ANOTHER CONVICTION FOR MURDER.†  (source)
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    Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.†  (source)
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    Whenever two former Confederates met anywhere, there was never but one topic of conversation, and where a dozen or more gathered together, it was a foregone conclusion that the war would be spiritedly refought.†  (source)
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    from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!†  (source)
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