How to Use renunciation in a Sentence

renunciation

noun

• Their vows include renunciation of all wealth.
• The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2018
• Again and again, an era of overindulgence begets an era of renunciation: Binge, abstain.
  — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
• This is detox of a sort, but there's little renunciation.
  — Daisy Finer, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2019
• The narrator seems to be in a period of renunciation in her life.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• Spencer says he was surprised by Miller’s renunciation of him.
  — William D. Cohan, The Hive, 9 Aug. 2017
• The philosopher, known for his great speeches on renunciation and clemency, is himself one of the richest men in ancient Rome.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 20 Dec. 2022
• Is the answer a multitude of languages or a renunciation of one?
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• Still Here’ The punch-drunk frustration here comes first as an ambiguous lament, then a clear renunciation of — who else — the president.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Velu removed her gold earrings — an act of quiet renunciation in Tamil culture — and sent her home.
  — Longreads, 22 May 2018
• Some say that my renunciation of English could be disastrous, that my escape could lead me into a trap.
  — Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
• Democrats flipped more than a dozen seats in the November election, claiming the results as a renunciation of President Trump.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2018
• For Amiri, this learning process advanced by a series of grand statements and renunciations.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• In Sikhism, the ideal life of a person is neither abstinence nor renunciation, but rather a balanced life.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2022
• The Constitution calls for the renunciation of war, and Mr. Abe has long stated his desire to change it to allow Japan to strengthen its military.
  — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 21 July 2019
• To some Jews, the president’s attacks on the congresswomen are a fierce renunciation of anti-Semitism and a defense of Israel.
  — Lisa Lerer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• And, at the same time, this vision of freedom involves not control but a renunciation of control, a submission to the existential flip of the coin, to the random question of whether the overdose will work.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• His life began to take shape as a series of bold strokes and renunciations, chosen at least in part for their symbolic significance.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• With Bob, there is a kind of ascetic renunciation in his suffering that borders on the spiritual.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2022
• Its creation is meant to be a renunciation of everything Europeans have done wrong.
  — James Kirchick, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
• The issue was whether one was free to achieve personal salvation by meritorious acts or renunciations or through the good offices of the church.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• Toulouse-Lautrec, ancient sculptors, and all the rest were both rivals and allies in the pursuit of a good picture, and, in this year of Picasso mania and Picasso renunciation, that’s worth keeping in mind.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• In South Korea and beyond, Ukraine’s renunciation of its nuclear arsenal three decades ago is seen by some as a mistake that left it open to invasion.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• In the mid-1980s, Mandela rejected offers to go free in exchange for a renunciation of violence.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
• Both say that the divorce has nothing to do with their renunciation of Scientology.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• Philosophical knowledge can grant us serenity and insight, while asceticism and the renunciation of desire may free us from bondage to the Will and lead us to a peaceful Nirvana.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• The madness of King Mohammed could give way to something else: a slow and graceful renunciation of power—or, as with Assad, an ever more violent exercise of it.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• The red flag allows for renewal and renunciation, while the image of a smiling Sun alludes to triumph and accomplishment.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
• What if Per’s final renunciation is a narrative false flag?
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• For priests, this is the foundation of the necessity of celibacy but also of liturgical prayer, meditation on the Word of God and the renunciation of material goods.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025