forsaken
Meaning of forsaken in English
(Definition of forsaken from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of forsaken
forsaken
And they shall become as those, whom they have forsaken.
From CNN
Forsaken once more takes those things at face value.
From NPR
For the first time, the 68-year-old artist has forsaken abstraction for realism.
From NOLA.com
In this context, the plight of these forsaken elderly seems almost an afterthought.
From TIME
His brand of bouncy, gleeful music hasn't been forsaken.
From Plain Dealer
But, however it comes, in that dark night, we feel truly forsaken.
From Huffington Post
To a remarkable degree, the metaphors and symbols of the built environment have been dominated in recent months by images of unneeded, sealed-off, ruined, forlorn or forsaken buildings and cityscapes.
From Los Angeles Times
The people feel ignored and forsaken.
From The Atlantic
It's an odd exercise to pan a book that's 25 years old, scarcely read, and whose author hasn't just forsaken it but raided it for its best bits.
From Slate Magazine
They agreed that it was unpredictability: even if someone had planned time off on a given night, that could be quickly forsaken if something came up.
From Fast Company
His precious gift to the world was completely forsaken and his divine beauty unappreciated by those who refused to bear joyful witness to a life of honesty.
From Huffington Post
So, having forsaken the task of meaning-making, many liberal, mainline churches attempt to justify themselves by flailing around, searching for something socially acceptable to do with themselves.
From Huffington Post
They are kin among whom a secret, once confided, is not revealed; nor is the criminal because of his crimes forsaken.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Further, the present perfect tense makes it a reversal, too, of the initial cry: from `you have forsaken me' to `you have answered me'.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Period 2 judicial review represented the attempt to rally seemingly forsaken principles in a context of revolutionary instability and untested republicanism.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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