How To Use Forgo In A Sentence
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The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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(Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.")
Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
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If your next record's a bit iffy, you're forgotten.
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Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
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The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles.
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He's not tried to be dishonest, he has just forgotten to mention one thing.
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Oh I forgot, the nice man intimidated her into signing the car documents over to him.
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Forgotten skills include bleeding radiators and servicing a car.
The Sun
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I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
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Aerogels had been largely forgotten when, in the late 1970s, the French government approached Stanislaus Teichner at Universite Claud Bernard, Lyon seeking a method for storing oxygen and rocket fuels in porous materials.
A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch
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She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier.
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We could have taken the okie-doke route and been forgotten about.
Grammy nominees, all full of glee
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The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
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She soon became very drunk and forgot about mankind, so they were saved from destruction.
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Ruth Hawkin was sitting at the kitchen table, a forgotten cigarette in the ashtray next to her transformed into three inches of marled grey ash.
A Place of Execution
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There were hosts on it and about it, and then Dr Duthoit forgot all about what we call the realities and facts of life, forgot that this sort of thing does not happen, and watched what was happening.
Dr Duthoits Vision
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The authors, both pollsters, will either win plaudits in future years or be forgotten like many hyperbolic, wrong-headed forecasters through the eons.
Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston
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Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten.
Your Right Hand Thief
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It seemed unlikely that the debt would ever be paid so we just forgot it.
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He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight.
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Working with long-forgotten kitchen utensils was not easy.
Times, Sunday Times
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I forgot to turn it on. D'oh!
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I forgot to tell you about Tom, who was the only son and had to sleep on the half loft above the kitchen.
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A scathing report said basic security disciplines had been forgotten.
The Sun
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All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres.
Gulliver of Mars
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In time folk memory faded and with the passing of those who had lived through the events of 1903 the Gordon Bennett Race became an almost forgotten note in the annals of Irish motoring history.
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Clara looked puzzled for a moment—she had forgotten that that was what they called the picnic spot on the Guadalupe.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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Oops, sorry, I forgot Chicoutimi was the boat involved in that tragic fire and is still not repaired.
One way to fill blogspace on a pre-long weekend Friday – Liveblogging a PMO background briefing - Inside the Queensway - Macleans.ca
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I forgot to mention when talking about Oscar that he had his 15 minutes of fame.
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Despite his major contribution to medical science, he died reviled, his name soon forgotten.
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In ruling out a Yes vote from the get-go, Israel conceded immediate defeat in the world body, in the process forgoing a range of tactical advantages it could have gained by signaling qualified support for a resolution and then negotiating to help shape its wording to a text Israel could have profited by backing.
Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN
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That means Schwarzenegger's earnings from a career as a Hollywood megastar, which allowed him to forgo a salary as governor and commute by private jet to Sacramento, likely will be evenly divided with his estranged wife.
Maria Shriver files to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger
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He's always there to provide those pieces of information that are forgotten by the others.
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We have forgotten how important enforced isolation is in the control of infectious disease.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watching your child explore the world about her can open your eyes to delights long forgotten.
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Ask the average squash player about the state of hardball singles in the US, and he will say that is probably just a few septuagenarians swatting a red pellet in the basement of some long forgotten club.
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His points were different from those of Photius; he had forgotten the Filioque, and had discovered a new heresy in our use of azyme bread.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Good, I hadn't forgotten anything, and the guard was snoring slightly in the corner.
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I forgot to mention the corporatization and control of the music industry and radio.
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It''s the biggest thing to happen in The Land Cod Forgot since the invention of the pogey cheque - Newfoundland''s native son Brad Gushue will represent Canada in curling at the 2006 Olympics in Turin," he wrote.
Archive 2006-03-01
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The actor botch botched ( ie forgot or stumbled over ) his lines.
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I completely forgot that it was his birthday yesterday.
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Lori and theother twoguys whose names I forgot (doh!) were wonderful hosts.
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2009 » November » 21
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Oh no, I've forgotten my wallet.
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The girls, delighted by their little play, laughed merrily and forgot about the gossip.
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Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
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Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother.
El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
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However, the arduousness of this process, and the attempts to block it, should not be forgotten.
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He's the latest leader to face a party rebellion over nuclear weapons, but it is often forgotten that he himself was once a unilateralist.
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The refusal of judges to give any interviews, under cover of antiquated ‘rules’ which a long forgotten lord chancellor had invented, compounded the sense that they were all, or almost all, malevolent recluses.
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clean forgot the appointment
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The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
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Backwards Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards.
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Invaded by photographs the toys are decontextualised from childhood, sinister, tragic recollections of a half-forgotten adventure.
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You can say that you genuinely forgot, or got muddled up or fibbed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dress was put in a drawer, unfinished but not forgotten about.
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And now things are different, and the kolkhoz has forgotten us ... '
Calling A Dead Man
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Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
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It vexed him that the golden deeds of his youth had been largely forgotten and that no knighthood had been bestowed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sheer malevolence she saw there brought back memories she thought she had forgotten.
YELLOW BIRD
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When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort.
Introduction, I.1
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I haven't forgotten my roots in Glasgow, with the dingy tenements and the grass full of dog dirt, and there are parts of Middlesbrough which look as if they belong to the Dark Ages.
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This was an obligement never to be forgotten; and the more to be considerd, because antecedent to her love.
Dedication
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I knew I could never return because soon it would cease to exist, along with the lives, emotions and memories of its inhabitants, the ordinary, forgotten, unmourned, uncelebrated people of history.
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People using graphical Web browsers who have poor eyesight or who forgot their reading glasses may be out of luck, too.
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Any hopes Wasps had of upsetting that plan were dashed by an England flyhalf almost forgotten in the blitz of publicity surrounding their own.
The Sun
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Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning.
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In fact, I had completely forgotten that we were eating in a vegetarian restaurant.
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I apologized absolutely saying that I had entirely forgotten in my enthusiasm and was very sorry.
Broken Lives
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A sonic whistle is very old technology, to the point of almost being forgotten.
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He's repeatedly played ineffectual, wimpy characters… easily forgotten and unmemorable.
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One turns to the other and says, ‘Y'know, if her name hadn't been Sandra I'd have forgotten her by now.’
The Killing Kind
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It would be a manifest tragedy if remembering was forgotten, because society was forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twenty-two years later, despite its cornucopia of Oscars, this was now a film largely forgotten.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.
The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story
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At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten,
A Confederate girl's diary,
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Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas.
Which Way for Hamas?
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As we mentioned, McCain spending this week campaigning in what he calls the forgotten areas of America, trying to convince voters he's a different kind of Republican candidate.
CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008
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Anyway, school broke for holidays, and I forgot all about it.
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She had psyched herself up so much for the camping trip that she forgot her sleeping bag.
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Owing to a strange mental aberration he forgot his own name.
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The isolation seemed complete, in the haste he had forgotten his companion and in recompense he called out his name.
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This was the first response: unforgotten pain, anger and fear.
Times, Sunday Times
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I haven't forgotten the 'blackwash', the 'summer of 4 captains' and the excruciating Ashes defeats and dead rubber victories........now it's time for some payback.
The Ashes 2010-11: Aussies beware – cricket is taking a kicking | Kevin Mitchell
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Our loved ones are only truly dead if they are forgotten.
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Michener never forgot the importance of his education - and spenta lifetime quietly helping others get theirs.
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I forgot to salt the dish.
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The most forgotten purchase of plants is bulbs, tubers and corms.
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For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent.
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Your cultural heritage is in critical danger of being lost and forgotten forever.
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Creativity withers when these ties are forgotten, neglected or severed.
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Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
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In many neighborhoods, someone forgot plan for that basic building block of livable cities, the sidewalk.
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However, these discoveries were soon forgotten and only after a long eclipse was interest in oncogenic viruses revived in the fifties.
Renato Dulbecco - Nobel Lecture
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Many British people seem to have forgotten - or failed to learn - that US foreign policy is complex and contains many strands.
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She has always been a flirt from the first day I met her and just because she was a little older, doesn't mean she has forgotten how much fun being a flirty tease can be.
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The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
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We decided to forgo our English lesson for a night and entertain our friends.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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I'm worried people have forgotten why those Pilgrims shipped over here in that floating breadbox.
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The only way to handle these situations is to actually be honest and just ask "I'm really sorry I forgot, but what's your name again?"
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This screen was placed there at the time she found herself obliged to take to her chamber; and in the depth of our concern, and the fulness of other discourse at our first interview, I had forgotten to apprize the Colonel of what he would probably see.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Fortune changes all; and those who discovered the circulation of the blood, the lacteal veins, and the thoracic canal, are the servants of those who have learned what concomitant grace is, and have forgotten it.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I forgot to take my bag with me when I got off the bus.
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Haha, you silly twit, he won with 55 percent of the vote against Stefan's hero Toby Nixon, in a district that Nixon had carried twice before, a district that once elected Kathy Lambert and the never-to-be-forgotten Bill (Spanky) Backlund.
Sound Politics: Urban Legends And Eric Oemig
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Johnny was a lovely man and his warm smile will not be forgotten or his great outlook on life in general.
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We must swap carrots for sweet potatoes; shun spinach and embrace kale; forgo oranges and prefer papaya.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rats! I forgot to buy any bread.
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Dublin, in case we have forgotten, is built on the inlet of a large river and is surrounded by numerous bays and inlets and has a vast well-sheltered harbour.
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Hast thou forgotten thine arrogance and insolence and tyranny, and thy disregarding the due of goodfellowship and thy refusing to be advised by what the poet saith?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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April 22nd, 2010 1: 46 am ET have we forgotten what it was like to. be born black in america during the 60's and early we we're not allowed to be born in a hosp. with dr. and nurse. our births were joted down on a scrap piece of papaer with little interest to the gov. there are many blacks whose bc want pass birthers standards ..
Sessions walks fine line about diversity on the Supreme Court
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Suffering and death and all ugliness were forgotten in congenial and healthful companionship.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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With some stunts requiring her to withstand six times the force of gravity, her fear of heights was soon forgotten.
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But all of the nail biting is forgotten as Brazil has rolled through the tournament unbeaten, with major victories coming against Belgium and England.
USATODAY.com - Brilliant Brazil overcomes tough Turkey
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Unfortunately, the headhunter forgot to inform the candidate, so the meeting between the candidate and the client collapsed in misunderstanding.
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The cost will be long-forgotten, but the hunting memories and trophies will remain.
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Given the choice of landing in unfriendly Syria or ditching, he was forced to make a cutter landing at night, and he hasn't forgotten.
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Of our conferrence I need not tell you the effect; it surely may be forgiven me, if on this occasion I forgot the decency of common forms.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
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That the woman has been forced to forgo her rights and the fact that the relationship is shrouded in secreecy render misyar marriage totally illegitimate.
Arabnews - frontpage
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Patti is running a series on Fridays called Forgotten Books, which this weekfeatures Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
Pattinase's forgotten books
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All they had to do was make sure that the warrior classes were comfortable and they could forgo the business of spears and swords.
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Most people have forgotten that Apple introduced its first handheld device back in 1993: the woefully bad Newton, which was about the size of a hard-bound Stephen King novel big! and had truly pathetic handwriting-recognition software - supposedly its biggest selling point.
How they sell you what you don't understand
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She had started to make breakfast but wasn't looking and got butter everywhere and grabbed the frying pan that was all metal and forgot (as usual) to use a mitten.
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Calliope "Calli" Reaper-Jones has had a Forgotten Charm put on herself so she can lead a normal mortal's life in New York City, trying to break into the world of fashion.
Review: Death’s Daughter by Amber Benson
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The recommendation by Hunter's committee that two professors were desirable was forgotten.
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The big disadvantage of having so many powerful coaches is that players have forgotten how to think for themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind.
Chapter 30
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But though they blethered and and grumbled and girned at him, they forgot it all soon enough and laughed about his nonsense.
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It was a lively, convivial atmosphere - gone but not forgotten.
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Have you forgotten that your tribe, the Efik, were among the most notorious slavers on the slave coast?
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By the following night, I had completely forgotten about my moxibustion therapy.
Times Two
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In the early 1980s, interest rates were still very high by current day standards and contangos were simply too large to forgo.
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When writing, she is totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea!
Diana Wynne Jones biography
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Although it's so long since I took a linguistics subject that I'd forgotten what a dipthong is and had to Wiki it... are you able to kind of spell out how bead would be pronounced if it were dipthongised vs. not dipthongised?
Also, WTF?
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And the morgue fills with the stench of the unforgotten dead.
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And if a sponsor refuses to sign, it may have to forgo participation in the study.
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You and your people have forgotten the manitous, you have forgotten to respect the very things that give your people life.
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While several have received the care and support that they need, many others have died on the streets, uncared for, lonely, abused and forgotten…
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I have, however, already forgotten what that slightly rubbery shrimp roll I ate in the picture above was called; but you can bet it was something cutesy, which is probably why I took it.
Monster Munching
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He was a Navy stoker ready to board the fatal expedition, when a last minute order by his Captain to forgo the operation and remain ashore saved his life.
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Being a noob, I forgot to print out the map.
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I am the same man and have become another man who has forgotten the sameness.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Certain words drift into the realm of nothingness to be eminently forgotten.
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In time, argues Winnicott, the transitional object is relegated to limbo, neither mourned nor forgotten, just losing its meaning.
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'Aye!' she said, 'they ha' been long forgotten in these places; I deem it is overlate to call them to mind. '
The Fifth Queen Crowned
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I immediately forgot about the noisy, bumpy minibus journey.
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Yet I have not forgotten the experience - the shock of discovery.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher
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It was like he had never left all those years ago and they lapsed back into the unforgotten roles of teacher and student.
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They swapped their heads around and played and partied and danced and jigged and forgot who they were.
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Love is a promise. Love is a souvenir. Once given, never forgotten. Never let it disappear.
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For decades the old garden had lain dormant and almost forgotten as many others of that period often do.
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Then I recall that I forgot to bring it with me when I packed my bags in Boston.
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But he said he has never forgotten the experience of being present at a historic event.
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We apologize to anyone whose name we have forgotten in the rush of deadline time; you are all in good company.
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Sorry,I forgot.You don't need me anymore.
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I do share the concern that the maul is a forgotten art in New Zealand rugby," said Henry.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Both organisations forgot the immutable law about things and people that are too good to be true.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've forgotten her name, but maybe it'll come to me later.
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This is the story behind the Victorian madwoman in the attic, of all the forgotten women whose rewritten histories replace isolation with hysteria, and non-conformity with insanity.
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It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them.
The Warden
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Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drunk.
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot... `You don't think about her?
RESCUING ROSE
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How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly.
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Schueler is one of the great forgotten geniuses of late 20 th-century art.
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I don't think that you can reasonably expect the average American to be familiar with details of palaeogeography (over on talk. origins one person knew that South America was once next to Africa, but forgot that the south east US also was once next to Africa (apart from the parts that were part of Africa).
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.
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I also forgot my tabs and ended up puking most of the morning.
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The nearest he got to a criminal act was the day he forgot his house keys and broke into his own home using a credit card with nonchalant ease.
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But I had forgotten those accursed books of poetry.
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Her joy was so infectious that he momentarily forgot his own fears for the future.
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To reach a younger demographic, Jensen and his ilk are eschewing mainstream acts and building brand identity with cutting-edge, forgotten, and obscure music.
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At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature.
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You forgot one of his lesser-known liabilities - he speaks in an unquotable tangle of tangents and half finished sentences.
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He forgot though that he has high-test alcohol on his face!
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During demolition work near Blackfriars he found two complete and forgotten prison cells.
Times, Sunday Times
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Highlighting the heroism and absurdity of war, it also illuminates a forgotten byway of African experience.
The King's Rifle: Summary and book reviews of The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele.
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When the wound is healed, the pain is forgotten.
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Look you, Herr Doctor: months we have been on this cruise, yes, more than three months out of Heligoland, penned together in this ramshackle stinkpot, or isolated here in this God-forgotten hole, seeing nothing of life, hearing nothing of the world but what little the radio tells us -- sick of the very sight of one another's faces!
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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Most of the tiny bits of jigsaw on show here survived accidentally, cemented into the walls as rubble, dropped into coal bunkers and forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every one could then recall the ghastliness of his features and all the evidences of extreme excitement they had observed throughout the trial, things they might otherwise have forgotten.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
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My sore knee, tennis elbow and arthritic feet are forgotten.
Times, Sunday Times
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At eighty-two her body is honed of every excess inch or process yet I am surprised by sudden joy rippling beneath my hands over the tender bow of neck down the white-lathered curve of spine into that naked place where pleasures live unforgotten and swans sing their final song.
February « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Even though the ball turret gunner forgot to level his guns, we crash landed with out incident.
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Real Tuscan villas possess a sort of laconic elegance from their relatively unornamented rustic style: the rough hewn here is more of the Home Depot ‘I forgot’ variety.
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Smiling, not because happiness too long, is too long time forgot to sorrow.
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She forgot how the puzzle fitted together.
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She was new to being a dog owner and somewhere in the middle of telling her this and that about Buddy and Sweets and discussing everything else under the sun, I forgot I wasn't wearing a bra and had a dripple of Noxema on my shirt.
Haloaskew Diary Entry
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He conjured up a vision of this strange forgotten kink in the world's littoral, of the long meandering channels that spread and divaricate and spend their burden of mud and silt within the thunderbelt of Atlantic surf, of the dense tangled vegetation that creeps into the shimmering water with root and sucker.
Tono Bungay
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They faded away in distress, in vain and into the forgotten pages of local history.
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The giggle that implies that at the sight of each other's curvacious, water-slick naked bodies his admirers forgot all about him and are now busy indulging in lesbian hijinks?
13th June '06
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Despite the importance of HeLa cells, Henrietta Lacks and her family were forgotten for many years.
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There might have been some chitchat with the waiter about ice or check-desires, but not nearly enough to fill those forgotten minutes of friendlessness and communication-freeness.
Richard Laermer: Just Think
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Opportunities like this only come once a season, like last year when he forgot his lighter, or the year before when the cops where called after he molested a scarecrow.
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I pulled up to the launch and actually backed it is on the third try which I thought was good, but had to pull it right back out because I forgot to unstrap the boat.
Tales From The Boat Ramp
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The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil.
The Reign of Mary Tudor
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The current deduction costs nearly $80 billion a year in forgone federal revenues.
Housebound
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Stories handed down through generations of miners, quarrymen and farmers may be forgotten for ever.
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I'm so scared of showing up that day and hitting myself in the forehead - We forgot to order the challah!
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Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
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The gas board had forgotten to put the cover back on the hole.