Sample Sentences for
relinquish
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    It is time for me to relinquish the old ideas.
    relinquish = give up
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    The Black Thing does not relinquish its victims willingly.  (source)
    relinquish = let go of
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    Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony.  (source)
    relinquish = surrender (give away)
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    But after all is said and done, I'll be obliged to let you have your way, since I don't want people saying later on that Anne Frank failed her exams because Mr. Dussel refused to relinquish his table!  (source)
    relinquish = give up
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    Phil relinquished control to the Norden bombsight.  (source)
    relinquished = gave up
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    "I didn't know this was a pajama party," Turtle said, relinquishing her chair and stomping to the far end of the table.  (source)
    relinquishing = giving up
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    A vow of celibacy and the relinquishment of all personal assets hardly seemed a sacrifice.†  (source)
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    She relinquishes my arm and lifts my chin.†  (source)
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    To be relinquish'd of the artists,— PAROLLES.†  (source)
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    And I also began gradually to understand how the turmoil that was grinding them to pieces had double origins, deriving perhaps equally from the black and tormented underside of Nathan's nature and from the unrelinquished reality of Sophie's immediate past, trailing its horrible smoke—as if from the very chimneys of Auschwitz—of anguish, confusion, self-deception and, above all, guilt ... I had been sitting one evening at around six o'clock at our usual table at the Maple Court, sipping beer and reading the New York Post.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrelinquished means not and reverses the meaning of relinquished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    In his haste, he did not relinquish his grip on the toolbox as he sprinted to the bottom of Himmel Street, took a few side roads, and entered the trees.  (source)
    relinquish = let go of
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    The child, relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly into her mother's dress.  (source)
    relinquished = released
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    We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.  (source)
    relinquishing = letting go of
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