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
  • As part of that second phase, the West might ask Ukraine to forswear nuclear weapons.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Bruce Wayne of this universe has forsworn being Batman in an attempt to find a better work-life balance.
    — Samantha Allen, Them, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Trump may have forsworn retail politics in the baby-kissing, chit-chatting sense of the term.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
  • But driving on the autobahn, long stretches of which forswear any speed limit at all, can be a chilling experience for the timid.
    — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 21 Apr. 2017
  • For example, the new regime would forswear ever joining any hostile alliance.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2017
  • The logic to this argument is that a democratic and pro-Western Iran would forswear nuclear weapons (and mean it) and back away from supporting proxies.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • And the United States would accept and be prepared to recognize the current Iranian government, forswearing attempts at regime change.
    — Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
  • 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

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