How to Use forswear in a Sentence

forswear

verb

• She forswore her allegiance to the old regime.
• He foreswore cigarettes as his New Year's resolution.
• Many of you have already forsworn, what seemed at the time, to be the unfathomable.
  — Adrienne M. Buckley, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2020
• The rule of law is vital to free and fair elections, and Mr. Trump is right not to forswear his legal options.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• More than 4,000 of them signed a letter saying Google should forswear all defense projects.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 29 May 2018
• Which states plainly that the Oulipo is a group that forswears ideology.
  — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• Trump may have forsworn retail politics in the baby-kissing, chit-chatting sense of the term.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• It was forced to forswear many of the perks that similar developing countries enjoyed.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Neither Washington nor Kyiv is ready to forswear Ukraine’s sovereign right to choose its alliances.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
• And the Fed shouldn’t forswear tools like QE because in the future, conventional tools may not be enough to restore full employment and 2% inflation.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 July 2017
• For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
• Having forsworn working again with the 9th Division, the unit was deployed north of Intisar, to support the advance led by the Golden Division.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2017
• Much of the field has forsworn corporate PAC and lobbyist donations in general.
  — NBC News, 17 July 2019
• The tactics formulated by the right, and eagerly adopted by Trump, have proved so successful that their opponents would be foolish to forswear them.
  — Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
• Haynes spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about making a movie for Amazon, working with child actors and forswearing dialogue.
  — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
• And while no nation has declared its intention to build fully autonomous weapons, few have forsworn them either.
  — Paul Scharre, Wired, 19 May 2020
• Solutions for Change, a stubbornly independent nonprofit that’s been at this line of work for 20 years, disagrees and has recently turned its back on large grants rather than forswear its principles.
  — Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• McCarthy's refusal to forswear his relationship with Trump and his decision to repair it is the latest troubling sign that vast swaths of the Republican Party have turned their backs on the standards and obligations of democracy.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 July 2021
• But even if scientists forswear FBS, cultured meat may not be wholly acceptable to one group of potential customers—vegans—because the animal can never be completely removed from the process.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
• Designer Giorgio Armani has forsworn using real animal fur in all his lines, winning praise from animal rights activists.
  — Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2018
• O’Rourke’s example increases likelihood that at least one of those contenders will look to distinguish themselves by forswearing corporate cash.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Jan. 2018
• In the campaign, Mr. Johnson stuck to a disciplined strategy, forswearing the clownishness that has characterized his political career.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• One possible ploy might be to forswear missiles that can hit American cities but to preserve a small nuclear arsenal, perhaps under international supervision.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Among them, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has gone even further, forswearing private fund-raisers with millionaires that typically fuel campaigns.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019

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