How To Use Forsake In A Sentence

In recent years many have forsaken their turbans and beards, claiming it counts against them when trying to find a job. Times, Sunday Times
It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
People who would either forsake government aid if possible, or volunteer their time to create non-state charitable institutions, are liable to be considered suckers.
God-forsaken parish on a Government job, and I happen on a whole shopful of ancient remains. News from the Duchy
The visitor, we're told, gazing at the soft-bellied male race enthusiasts in the stands, would be horrified and bellow (if he could indeed speak): "My sons, my sons, why have you forsaken me? Testosterone Put to the Test

When truth is forsaken, errors multiply in infinitum -- infinitely. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The other forsaken element is methodology.
By the time I got home again I could afford to spend 55 minutes reinstalling my godforsaken operating system which was more or less all it took, I think.
Tims's thoughts had forsaken the personal side of the question, when she was recalled to it by seeing the right hand in which the stylograph had been lying begin to twitch, the fingers to contract. The Invader A Novel
I was trapped with my flaky mother in a too-small car loaded with all of our worldly possessions, driving to a forsaken destination.
He felt pity for such a forsaken creature: no one had warmed her or comforted her or loved her enough to have her christened.
So you'd better be heatproof or just plain quick if you're collecting data from the surface of this forsaken place.
Wherefore sithence we are committed vnto your charge, you ought in no wise to forsake vs. Then he said: all shalbe well. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
I had ignorantly imagined the Louisiana swamp as godforsakenly muggy, buggy, and hot.
The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. The Golden Asse
Midnight: the witching hour, in this empty, godforsaken, lonely place. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
You spent four years in Africa, in England, in France, grubbing around in the insides of airplane engines and then they shipped you to an air base on a godforsaken island.
Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?
So never forsake perfection, because then you get imperfection.
He told me he could save me from my forsaken life. The Sun
When she went to that lady with the ring, she was most glad to find that Silvia utterly rejected the suit of Proteus; and Julia, or the page Sebastian as she was called, entered into conversation with Silvia about Proteus first love, the forsaken lady Julia. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Their excitability every time a Briton comes a pathetic eighth in some godforsaken sport suggests that urine samples should be taken at once - not from the competitors but from the presenters.
If back in '64 the system seemed to have abandoned and forsaken people, what of now?
I mean, as long as the West maintains naval presence in Somalian waters and are able to shoot the pirates, I really couldn’t care less what happens on land in that God-forsaken place. Matthew Yglesias » The End in Somalia
Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee_. Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Forsake your folly and live , And proceed in the way of understanding.
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. Fret Not
Everyman is at-last forsaken by Beauty, and Power and Wealth, and all the other allegorical figures, and is left alone to face Desolation and the Judgment of Heaven, with only Good Deeds to befriend him. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. Recovering From Religious Abuse
You see, not only do these five godforsaken months of permanent darkness and sub-arctic temperatures mess with my mental stability, they also make me fat.
Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept vigil over their mother.
They're safely back in the bunker ordering the privates, corporals and sergeants to climb aboard our motorized tin cans, known as armoured vehicles, and patrol that God-forsaken desert -- knowing full well roadside bombs could blow them to bits. Toronto Sun
Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It's good practice in the country to be generous with bird food once Winter bites; do it too early, though and the little blighters will forsake their job of keeping the bugs down.
But at some point in life, you must abandon books, forsake the forewarning words of others, and find out for yourself.
He told me he could save me from my forsaken life. The Sun
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The estimate made by Eusebio, however, of the trend or direction of the calisaya groves, induced him to forsake the bed of the Cconi, and strike south-eastwardly, so as to cross the Ollachea and the Ayapata. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
There were no stirrings in or about the outbuildings and to all appearances the place seemed forsaken. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Against this backdrop, the right-of-center government led by Netanyahu appears to be committed to disfranchise Palestinians, suppress opposition, undermine democratic values and forsake the moral tenants on which the state of Israel was created. Alon Ben-Meir: Israel Needs a Palestinian State
After three more moves, our people were ready to forsake the nomadic life. Christianity Today
The humbled Wolsey, weeping at Cromwell's loyalty, urges him to forsake him and serve the King faithfully.
Which is an argument sufficient, that goodnesse is gone up to heaven, and hath quite forsaken these loathed lower Regions, where men are drowned in the mud of all abhominable vices. The Decameron
The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.
None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity.
What was a poor, forsaken girl to do?
Cease from anger and forsake wrath ; Do not fret ; it leads only to evildoing.
Next morning we strolled, unwashed, along the desolate shoreline of this godforsaken place called Na'ama Bay.
All the successive central and state governments have completely neglected this forsaken and endangered community.
If there'd been a halfway decent house for hire on this godforsaken island, I would have taken it. YELLOW BIRD
The word rendered "forsake" actually means to abandon or, in this case, to set aside. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
To forsake good for the sake of gold is not for me.
But their hi-tech approach doesn't forsake the old values.
He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war.
None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity.
This guy looks nice enough, and he'll probably make this godforsaken trip bearable.
I believe that I am a complete psycho and I pretend that Chase is this forsaken love that will make me all better.
The view in itself is so hedonistic and so filling that it often helps me forsake my regulation morning croissant.
How does anyone survive in this godforsaken place? Amaryllis in Blueberry
If Micheál Martin (who's on a bit of a personal crusade against fags) had successfully implemented his ban, would this hung over and rather lairy crew have forsaken their twenty packs?
He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war.
Yet many of our opponents argue that we ought to forsake sexual intimacy in favor of celibacy.
There were no stirrings in or about the outbuildings and to all appearances the place seemed forsaken. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He decided to forsake politics for journalism.
My professor, from Pittsburgh, thought that I had just abandoned the character to the most godforsaken spot on Earth.
The name Tuareg (singular, Targui) was given by the Arabs to the Berbers of the desert, and means "those forsaken of God". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
He told me he could save me from my forsaken life. The Sun
First the oil companies scour the freaking globe, going to the most gosh-forsaken dangerous places on earth to find the stuff.
In recent years many have forsaken their turbans and beards, claiming it counts against them when trying to find a job. Times, Sunday Times
God, we must carry with us ourselves and all our works, as a perpetual sacrifice to God; and in the Presence of God, we must forsake ourselves and all our works, and, dying in love, go forth from all creatureliness into the superessential richness of God: there we shall possess God in an eternal death to ourselves. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
Who would venture to this Godforsaken place other than the slow witted? THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The real origin appears to be this: it was a part of the religious belief of the Egyptians that, as a reward of a well-spent and virtuous life, their bodies after death should exist and remain undecayed forever in their tombs, for we find in the "Book of the Dead" the following inscription placed over the spirits who have found favor in the eyes of the Great God: "The bodies which they have forsaken shall _sleep forever_ in their sepulchres, while they rejoice in the presence of God most high. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
If he writes slowly and with extreme care, he forsakes natural rhythm and ease of style.
Some were enchanted, and others haunted; in that the furniture was yellow, which she termed a forsaken colour; and in this it was red, the reflection of which would, she said, disorder the optic system. The Castle of Tynemouth. A Tale
“I have forsaken my ability to talk about this issue,” he said, and I find it hilarious that he actually used the word forsaken. Chuck Klosterman on Pop
But stuck in their godforsaken corner of the world, none of them know what the hell is going on and the first shot after the credits shows a line of men on a craggy ridge holding up TV antennas to no avail.
We spent more of our time playing table tennis in some godforsaken suburban basement than we did sightseeing in the centre of the capital, which seemed a completely wasted opportunity.
There were no stirrings in or about the outbuildings and to all appearances the place seemed forsaken. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Over the years we sat in many a drizzly car park on the dark perimeter of some God forsaken industrial town, solemnly munching sandwiches and making snidey remarks about salesmen.
a godforsaken wilderness crossroads
He has that deeply-lined face, he's from one of the godforsaken states where they have ‘northers’.
Tanus had taught her to forsake the awkward double-jointed manner of throwing that is natural to the female, and she hurled the melon she held with the force and aim of a trained javelineer. River God
Actually, the real name is Shepherd's Pie, but we call it Schlepperd's Pie, as in Honey, I'm home from schlepping that herd of sheep back and forth over the same godforsaken mountain for the past 3 months. Schlepperd's Pie
The temptation is to forsake fossilized print for the new opportunities of the dotcom world.
With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint. A Vision in Concrete
It is not many yeares since (worthy assembly) that in Bulloigne there dwelt a learned Physitian, a man famous for skill, and farre renowned, whose name was Master Albert, and being growne aged, to the estimate of threescore and tenne yeares: hee had yet such a sprightly disposition, that though naturall heate and vigour had quite shaken hands with him, yet amorous flames and desires had not wholly forsaken him. The Decameron
That of Jonah ii. 8 is concerning such as forsake the true The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
Nothing goes right for me anymore since I started reviewing this godforsaken Gobi desert of a record album, dammit.
Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed catch finished stamped crypts, chanceful catacombs, forsaken cathedrals, and modify to the hunch of the most secretive jump on earth, Langdon and Vetra module study a 400-year-old dawdle of ancient symbols that evaluation the Vatican's exclusive wish for survival. Www.awesomeblogs.com
He was undrafted out of perennial baseball powerhouse Eastern New Mexico University, and paid his dues in indy ball for three years before catching on with the scuzziest possible affiliated team, the godforsaken Baird-era Royals. Bucs Dugout
So today I decided to forsake all denim and wear instead pinstripe trousers with a white belt.
From Daggett, a forsaken station of the Santa Fé Railroad, a "jerkwater" road, as it is called, extends northward to Goldfield and Tonopah, and this road takes one almost as the crow flies to the edge of the valley of the ominous name. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
The cannon which boomed from the Tower, when with patient dignity that forsaken creature laid her head on the block, brought to the king's ear a double signal; of death and rejoicing. English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
He forsakes his ties to his homeside and personally betrays his ruthless ignorant leader/mentor and conspires with his ragtag group of renegades to somehow stop the bloodshed as the two sides engage in an epic clash. Five Reasons Why You Should Go See How To Train Your Dragon THIS WEEKEND | /Film
The literacy we have forsaken is not only of the elemental kind. Education, Freedom and Regulation
As if this freezing bunker on this godforsaken heath, the 18-hour days, the crawling about in the mud and route marches weren't bad enough, he's brought his own weights with him.
To solve the lack of order they saw all around them, the fathers seized on one of the great—and often missed—ironies in world history: the only thing that could make men forsake their own freedom and still believe they were free was self-rule. A Renegade History of the United States
The narrator claims that restraint is an all-or-nothing proposition for her: once she has forsaken that ‘simple rule of renunciation,’ she is under the sway of ‘the seductive guidance of illimitable wants’.
She flirts with one and coquets with another till I believe she will be forsaken by all if she does not alter her conduct.
As he speechified his way toward Washington, Lincoln invoked “Divine Providence,” “the Providence of God,” “that God who has never forsaken this people,” “the Divine Power, without whose aid we can do nothing,” “that Supreme Being who has never forsaken this favored land,” “the Maker of the Universe,” and “Almighty God.” The Chosen Peoples
This thing can never be forsaken; keep this always and forever in your mind.
The master plans eradicate any appreciable population in that godforsaken place. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
'I have gone to the Greek for it; and there the word rendered "forsake" is one that means to "take leave of" -- "bid farewell. A Red Wallflower
My main point was that it's far more than "some Dems" who have forsaken the True Path - It's the majority, or this foolishness would have died aborning. Lents Park on a late spring evening: beautiful (Jack Bog's Blog)
To solve the lack of order they saw all around them, the fathers seized on one of the great—and often missed—ironies in world history: the only thing that could make men forsake their own freedom and still believe they were free was self-rule. A Renegade History of the United States
Feminist literature, which forsakes the critical method of new criticism, attaches the importance to the studies of social and historical factors.
Forsake your folly and live , And proceed in the way of understanding.
The title refers to New Zealanders who have forsaken material trappings and joined the Buddhist faith.
Several of the buildings in the town housed trinket stores and sold things such as Beduin cloth, souvenirs, postcards of the Godforsaken main street, and any number of other things. The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra
The word 'eclipse' comes from the Greek word ékleipsis, or ekleíp (ein), which means to leave out, forsake, fail to appear CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
So you'd better be heatproof or just plain quick if you're collecting data from the surface of this forsaken place.
But if you are an oilfield fitter in some godforsaken Siberian driller camp and your wages aren't being paid, owning a few hundred shares in the refinery is a bit of an abstract concept.
And if the current week of strikes teaches anything, it's that a nation that forgoes economic growth ultimately forsakes its pensioners. Where France Goes . . .
It is some godforsaken place in Serbia, south-east of Belgrade. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Sweden have not forsaken their past quite so profligately.
I've forsaken my overbore Loudenboomers for cartridges that perform well without burning a cupful of powder. If You could have just one rifle...
Rising over the buried dungeons in that god-forsaken wilderness, a solitary tower, like some monument to Evil, is all that remains.
He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war.
Unfortunately, that very rifle is currently in a gunshop being blueprinted and fitted for its new barrel as I write these words, meaning that my favorite rifle, its original barrel shot out months ago, has, for the time being, forsaken me. If You could have just one rifle...
Columbine was emblematical of forsaken lovers.] [Footnote IV. 27: _There's rue for you; and here's some for me: -- we may call it herb of grace o 'Sundays: _] Probably a quibble is meant here, as _rue_ anciently signified the same as Hamlet
Not long afterwards, when the King of Ternate seemed to affect our nation, the Dutch threatened to forsake him, and to join with his deadly enemy the King of Tidor, if he suffered the English to have a factory, or allowed them any trade; affirming that the English were thieves and robbers, and that the _King of Holland_, as they called their stadtholder, was stronger at sea than all the other powers of A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
And being conscious likewise, how Presbytery or the Calvinisticall Reformation, which many here, and more in Scotland, affected, by substraction and novel interpretation, had forsaken the good old ways of the primitive Church, and was become dangerous to Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
Their excitability every time a Briton comes a pathetic eighth in some godforsaken sport suggests that urine samples should be taken at once - not from the competitors but from the presenters.
That they may 'forsake' all their own power to cope with them. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
We contingency realize most confidently which a Holy Spirit never reproves offer if a impiety is cleansed by a changed red red red blood as good as forsaken. Archive 2009-11-01
While travelling through that godforsaken country in the hope of turning the fruit of my loins into something vaguely resembling a man, I was unable to shake an insatiable hunger for biltong.
Afghanistan prior to the Taliban was a godforsaken hellhole that lead the world in heroin production, so it effectively was a series of criminal enterprises and not a state. Matthew Yglesias » Gaza in Context
Luck, so far, had been suspiciously benevolent; all the more reason to suspect that it would presently forsake her altogether. LAST SHOT
Now, we come to the most forsaken film of the year.
The sight of a holy man, who seemed peaceful and content, finally inspired him to forsake palace, wife and family and become a wandering mendicant.
They were moving into a neighborhood that had been a forsaken stretch of abandoned buildings.
I have no idea why, whether it was growing up in that god-forsaken, sandspur-infested, snaky wilderness or what, but my father just didn't have the normal fear of snakes. Local News from Tuscaloosa News
The frightened animal let out such a godforsaken scream that I half expected to be surrounded by every bear in the mountains.
This ramshackle tin-roofed hole in the wall is located at the bottom of a small hill on Gip's scraggly lawn, which makes sense because juke joints are always found on the other side of the tracks in godforsaken places in the middle of nowhere. Margie Goldsmith: Driving the Alabama Tornado Away and Singing the Blues
It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot.
Ye, O most laudable, have forsaken the life that draggeth down, the delights of food and flourishing glory as transient things, and have attached yourselves unto Christ, kindled by His exceeding beauty, cleaving unto Him as sweet-smelling wild roses, and ye were God-beseemingly crowned with the crowns of the incorruptible Kingdom. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
It showed me also that Jesus Christ had yet a word of grace and mercy for me, that He had not, as I had feared, quite forsaken and cast off my soul; yea, this was a kind of chide for my proneness to desperation; a kind of threatening of me, if I did not, notwithstanding my sins, and the heinousness of them, venture my salvation upon the Son of God. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
IV. iii.27 (490,2) and he, she lov'd, prov'd mad,/And did forsake her] I believe that _mad_ only signifies _wild, frantick, uncertain_. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Some works are autobiographical, including a piece about a dutiful daughter who forsakes her own happiness to care for her mother.
He and a few risk-seeking partners convinced the Federal Housing Administration that it would be a grand idea to build several tracts of government-subsidized low-income housing way the hell out past nowhere, in a godforsaken swath of desert poetically named Hesperia. The Dark Side of Innocence
The willow tree is often associated with weeping and forsaken love.
Lane forsakes his new girlfriend to please his abusive father. Janet Turley: Mad Men Season 4, Ep 10: "Get Rid of It"
He spends much of his time in some of the more life forsaken places on our planet.
He decided to forsake politics for journalism.
The new album features some recent smashers; ‘In The Grind’ and ‘Forsaken Dreams’ and a lot of older classics like ‘Threshold’ and ‘Friday'.
The Indian thereupon asked him (not at all unkindly) whether he would like to be sent back to London, and left where they had found him, sleeping in an empty basket in a market - a hungry, ragged, and forsaken little boy.
Mr Counsellor Fielding follows his retrospect of this strenuous attack on the law with a declaration that, henceforth, he intends to forsake the pursuit of that 'foolscap' literary fame, and the company of the Henry Fielding: a Memoir
Sooner or later, the worm forsakes this kind of caltrop which catches on to everything. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
Vulcan was to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous blacksmith, was dearly beloved of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the sweet-faced gods forsaken. Anatomy of Melancholy
After three more moves, our people were ready to forsake the nomadic life. Christianity Today
The old homestead is out in the true, deep, godforsaken boonies, because it takes all day to get there by truck; and most of the driving day is spent rumbling along on unpaved roads. The Abandoned
The yogi forsakes stealing, lying, cheating, killing, and other exploitative and self-gratifying behaviours.
The forsaken lands had been her home for so long, she had forgotten how lush and green it was.
The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.
He could easily have forsaken songwriting at this point: he had money in overplus, Linda's renewed dedication, an aerie in the town he adored.
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
Clem. ad Cor.ii. 3, erēmos edokei einai apo tou theou ho laos hēmōn, nuni de pisteusantes pleiones egenometha tōn dokountōn echein theon (“Our people seemed to be forsaken of God, but now we have become more numerous by our faith than those who seemed to possess God”); Ignat., ad Ephes.xix. -xx. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
When I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me," the Psalmist wrote, "until I declare Your strength to this generation. Larry Ross: At Home With Billy Graham On His 93rd Birthday
If you can forsake your fundamental principles for any reason then you are not the kind of person who can take the country forward.
He has forsaken his native Finland to live in Britain.
This thing can never be forsaken; keep this always and forever in your mind.
And I have to say: How great is it to have such go-to comedy pros who keep sticking it out in the godforsaken Hollywood biz? Annie Potts on 'Two and a Half Men': Another reason to say no to rehab | EW.com
Mr Counsellor Fielding follows his retrospect of this strenuous attack on the law with a declaration that, henceforth, he intends to forsake the pursuit of that 'foolscap' literary fame, and the company of the 'infamous' nine Muses; a decision based partly on the insubstantial nature of the rewards achieved, and partly it would seem due to the fact that at Fielding's innocent door had been laid, he declares, half the anonymous scurrility, indecency, treason, and blasphemy that the few last years had produced. Henry Fielding A Memoir
Elsewhere, Candice Breitz forsakes her interest in pop culture to study identical twins. This week's new exhibitions
In adhering to the Taylor families Mr. Webster obeyed the injunction of Solomon who said, "Thine own friend, and thy _father's friend_ forsake not. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
Finding decent green peppers or decent anything else in the godforsaken little grocery store in Salton City was pretty much impossible. Fatal Error
I'd forsake my ain wedded lord tae gae wi the gypsy laddies Gypsy Laddies
Her heart ached as the coldness gripped her and tore the dress to pieces, only shreds of innocent cloth lingering between her forsaken fingers.
“crying vehemently Zelmane help me, O Zelmane have pity on me”; and the old King, in whom the beautiful strange Amazon has awakened a senile amorosity, shows himself old and foolish, looking “very curiously upon himself, sometimes fetching a little skip, as if he had said his strength had not yet forsaken him”. The Common Reader, Second Series
So we see also that the science of medicine if it be destituted and forsaken by natural philosophy, it is not much better than an empirical practice. The Advancement of Learning
Lina, with her long black coat and trousers, stands like a villain in a spaghetti western in front of an unusually squalid shooting stall at some godforsaken Moscow amusement arcade.
And will Adam forsake cultured Europe for the crudities of America, taking his treasures and his sulky wife with him to exhibit (both) in a huge purpose-built art museum?
Not for some godforsaken one-horse town in the middle of nowhere. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
All he could do was know, and wait, which in its way was more painful than believing himself forsaken. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In the Greek text, the word forsaken literally means that Jesus felt abandoned by his Father, yet he called out to him in his pain. God Attachment
Jim forsakes family for work, and Sarah nags him about it.
Pitcairn looks to be such a godforsaken and boring place - there isn't even a sandy beach, let alone a palm tree - it's hardly surprising they had to make their own fun.
Mr. Blake had never been in such a God-forsaken country or community before, but there was something in the utter isolation, the far-stretching waste of shimmering sand, the desolate mountain ranges sharply outlined, hostile and forbidding, the springless, streamless, verdureless plains of this stricken land, that harmonized with the somewhat savage and cynical humor in which he had sought service in the most intolerable clime then open to the troops of Uncle Sam. A Wounded Name
To repent is to return to the Lord; to return to him as our God, our sovereign Lord, against whom we have rebelled, and to whom we are concerned to reconcile ourselves; it is to return to the Lord as the fountain of life and living waters, which we had forsaken for broken cisterns. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
After three more moves, our people were ready to forsake the nomadic life. Christianity Today
And for the most part societies and, indeed, entire cultures have disapproved of that kind of story which offers an unalleviated picture of human forsakenness.
We may be in a godforsaken backwater, and this may be a tent, but it is my operations center, and I will have silence.
Don't fear you forsake, just afraid of losing you.
Liz persuades him to take a forsaken puppy, called Odie.
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
To attend a funeral, a baptizing, or a circus parade, Berkeley will forsake family, friends, customers, and chicken legs; he will go through sun or through rain, by night or by day, in summer or in winter, and will never consider himself unrecompensed.
A guy comes to paradise and instead of enjoying himself he finds the darkest corner of the seediest bar around and drowns himself in booze every night for three weeks, with a face like he wishes some natural disaster would come and obliterate him and the whole hateful, godforsaken world around him. The Saved Man
Death, in this forsaken place, could come in countless forms.
When you think you are the best, why go to "godforsaken" countries where they hate you for being American, are cesspool, and you might get robbed? Matt Kepnes: Why Americans Don't Travel Overseas
We may reckon among these our spiritual evils an evil that hath more refinedness in it, more color for it, and hath deceived more people of integrity than the rest have done; for few have been catched by the former mistakes except such as have apostatized from their holy profession, such as, being corrupt in their consciences, have been forsaken by God and left to such noisome opinions. At the Opening of Parliament Under the Protectorate
In fact, one of the best moments of contrast on the whole album occurs in the middle section, where "Lethean", the album's heaviest track, is bookended by two of its most melodic, "Forsaken" and "Oblivion". PopMatters
Reason is fallible and virtue invincible; the winds vary and the needle forsakes the pole, but stupidity never errs and never intermits. A Cynic Looks at Life
Wid ye forsake yer ain wedded lord tae gae follow wi the gypsy laddies Gypsy Laddies
Rising over the buried dungeons in that god-forsaken wilderness, a solitary tower, like some monument to Evil, is all that remains.
Even if you later retract is and apologize, there are enough god-forsaken morons in this country who will keep repeating it as though it's gospel solely because they choose to believe it in order to confirm for themselves that the world does indeed work the way they wish it to. White House launches counteroffensive over Drudge Report link
The god Dionysos appeared, in all his divine glory, and rescued the forsaken heroine.
Rats leave (or desert or forsake) a sinking ship.
Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept vigil over their mother.
An author seeking damages would do better, one would have thought, by claiming to have become so addled that she had decided to forsake a certain payday for the vain hope of literary success .... Archive 2008-02-01

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