Sample Sentences for
forsake
(editor-reviewed)

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    Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,  (source)
    forsakes = abandons (stops helping)
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    'I will not forsake her,' I said wearily.  (source)
    forsake = abandon or give up on
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    Tixo, he says, Tixo, forsake me not.  (source)
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    Would he think we had forsaken him and deliberately ripped his wife's clothes--viciously broken the pigs?  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned or given up on
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    And is it with a clear and certain mind that you forsake your husband and your children?  (source)
    forsake = abandon or give up on
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    Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life.  (source)
    forsook = abandoned or gave up on
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    Unbeknownst to him, he had begun the ritual of semaphore with his father, forsaking words or physical affection.  (source)
    forsaking = abandoning
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    "Blessed is he who forsakes his father and his mother for my sake," he intoned.†  (source)
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    See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She forsaketh" in older English, today we say "She forsakes."
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    Don't forget, the story didn't end in his sense of forsakenness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    (To FAUST, who has left the dance:) Wherefore forsakest thou the lovely maiden, That in the dance so sweetly sang?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou forsakest" in older English, today we say "You forsake."
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    There was something sad and a little frightening about the place, because it all seemed so forsaken and long ago.  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
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    But choosing a different faction means I forsake my family.†  (source)
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