How To Use Giving up In A Sentence

She instantly regretted giving up her beautiful, loose robe for such whorish attire.
White has two ways of giving up a piece for the attack in the main line, and they're both looking as deadly as ever.
He had formed a violin trio with his two brothers after giving up a career in medicine for music.
Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily.
Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina.

He chose Sazanka because, in Japan, the plant represents the ideal of “never giving up”—a designation earned by the way that the flower survives the cold, even after snowfalls. First Contact
Any concerns about giving up that kind of bankroll at this point in your career? JSOnline.com
Some of the best and the brightest are giving up, rejecting businesses based on flimflams and deceptive marketing. Danny Schechter: Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis
Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.
It meant giving up the chance of going on to university, but after initial misgivings his father gave his support. Times, Sunday Times
Becoming self-employed meant giving up a secure salary, together with sick leave and long vacation time.
The defense has been prone to giving up long passes late in games.
He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
Teacher David Farrow has swapped the chalkface for the painter's easel, after giving up his job as head of art to become a professional artist.
Aren't you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start up a business?
Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
She had mixed feelings about giving up her job.
Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
They feel like they can get by with any Joe Schmo until they need a big bomb or they're giving up points because of [poor punting].
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Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting. James Campion: Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire
The ocean also has its secrets which it is rapidly giving up, mind you, thanks to the ingenuity of the human race.
More often, of course, separation involves a younger carer giving up the role, about which there is often profound ambivalence.
If he has ever seen the word scuttle it has been in the Jingo Press, where the "policy of scuttle" is used whenever we give up something to a small Power like Liberals, instead of giving up everything to a great Power, like Imperialists. Tremendous Trifles
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offender giving up his occupation for a year and a day.
He could never fathom ever giving up his absolute free will.
Airlines appear to be giving up on the battle to make passengers switch off their electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Times, Sunday Times
They found it hard to justify their son's giving up a secure well-paid job.
But it made her too ... not frightened -- she wasn't _frightened_ -- too _ashamed_ at the very thought of giving up, going back home empty-handed, blocked by a wizard who used cattle like these as his servants. Enchantment
Attempt doesn't necessarily bring success, but giving up definitely leads to failure.
The smart money must surely be on the consumer giving up the ghost in the end. Times, Sunday Times
Today, the herd talks of giving up on equities just when stocks have never been cheaper.
When the Kulaks resisted giving up their land and their property to be redistributed to "the people", Stalin starved and then slaughtered them by the millions. Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Aren't you chancing your arm a bit giving up a secure job to start up a business?
Five minutes after giving up, the coffee reappeared on the breadboard.
If until now hope has come from your expectation of a cure, then ending your treatment might seem like giving up hope.
After about mile six I did think that I maybe needed a wee, but I wasn't prepared to risk giving up the 30 seconds or so that this might add on to my time.
After giving up that business they attended a number of courses lasting from one to three days.
Another dilemma frequently encountered is the discovery that you are in two minds about giving up your behaviour. Coping with Bulimia
The department store chain is giving up a well-located outlet in its bid to compete in the shrinking department store retailing world.
I think she is afraid of dealing with the financial crisis that every state is facing at this time ... she's giving up rather then facing the people ... classy as usual. fay Palin to step down as governor, not seeking re-election
We came out with great energy, great defensive effort in the first quarter and then we have two steps back in the second quarter, giving up 49 points and them shooting 81 per cent in the first half," point guard Sportsnet.ca - Sports News
That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning.
You know that maybe it's time for miracles 'Cos I ain't giving up on love.
The minute you think of giving up,think of the reason why you held on so long .
Fuel is uranium aluminium silicide with enrichment levels of up to 20%, giving up to 4-year refuelling intervals. Small nuclear power reactors
Had to go appliance shopping yesterday – our 14-year-old drier is in the process of giving up the ghost. Squirrely behavior : Bev Vincent
They defied/flouted/broke with convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient.
The hardest thing about giving up smoking is the fear that you might actually be successful.
Some films answer this question by poeticizing realism (Throne of Blood, Kwaidan), through irony and humaneness (Star Wars, Chinese Ghost Story), or by just giving up believability (Charlie's Angels, Wong Jing's wackier films).
Those giving up farming often retain their attachment to the land by keeping their forestry as an investment.
After years spent honing the lessons, she was on the verge of giving up when people began taking notice. Times, Sunday Times
They either were knocked out of a game or suffered an actual concussion in consecutive weeks by a devastatingly violent defense that almost seems okay with giving up huge chunks of yardage as long as one of the other guys 'offensive stars has to be helped off the field at some point. Donovan McNabb and Redskins defense not perfect, but plenty plucky
I was proud of myself for giving up for a while, than resigned, and then I realized that the whole thing was semantics anyway.
Further, there is a significant grief reaction to giving up the substance or process of addiction itself.
I don't mind giving up a couple of hours a week to deal with correspondence.
Giving up on V-1, I resorted to a herringbone climb.
This lot are incapable of giving up the ghost until the final whistle has blown. Times, Sunday Times
If he is really serious about giving up, and is not just saying that to fob you off, he should seek professional therapy to help him to kick the habit.
Researchers said that using cytisine can triple a smoker's chances of giving up. Times, Sunday Times
I am also considering using some of the money to bet on a semi-professional level, but I won't be giving up my job.
Am I giving up on establishing a standard of excellence that will serve him in good stead all his life? Christianity Today
He was close to giving up art, but then won a Hamlyn Foundation award in 2004: "It was like being refuelled in midair when I was considering making an emergency landing," he says. Art and design: the ones to watch in 2012
Eloy congratulated me patronizingly for ‘not giving up’ and gave me his stringer of fish.
I can't help feeling slightly wistful about the perks I'm giving up.
Giving up alcohol might prove a trickier long-term proposition, although he has, for the first time in his life, admitted that he has been seeing an alcohol counsellor.
Airlines appear to be giving up on the battle to make passengers switch off their electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Times, Sunday Times
The simple act of giving up a sedentary occupation brought about the improved the state of health.
My reasons for giving up meat will probably have more to do with wanting to have a healthier, cleaner diet than any moral objection to eating meat.
Like many other Old Testament witnesses and prophets, Jacob is shown struggling with God and not giving up.
But dismissing the idea wholesale, on this flimsy evidence, makes no more sense than giving up driving because your motor has failed its MOT.
A typical Jimmer moment was bringing the ball upcourt, going left into a triple-team, they gyrating and gesticulating in the air before giving up the ball to a teammate at the last instant. Michael Conniff: Con Games: For the Love of Jimmer
A lot of small businesses are downsizing, giving up their work premises and asking staff to work from home. Times, Sunday Times
He was suffering from all the classic withdrawal symptoms associated with giving up heroin - inability to sleep, anxiety, sweating and fever.
Her parents were opposed to her giving up her course, but she did it anyway.
This lot are incapable of giving up the ghost until the final whistle has blown. Times, Sunday Times
We could all turn into size eights by giving up those naughty hamburgers.
The act of giving up animal foods (and by animal, we include poultry and fish) doesn't automatically transform a so-so diet into a healthful one.
Detective work is about a lot of things, mostly it's about not giving up.
Saul Alinsky learned from that, and strongly advocated giving up the bombs and rhetoric within their revolutionary dreams, instead entering the old form of society like the hagfish to devour it from the inside. [global governance] gore comes out with his new idea
Assimilation is the process of giving up traditional ethnic identity and accepting the dominant group's culture.
Obviously, I'm giving up my ciggies for health reasons.
This discovery consists in giving up the musical rhythm and replacing it with the rhythmic word, according to the accentuation and necessities of the texts.
What Justin was probably referring to is the fact many students are giving up their allowances, as well as gathering up spare change around their homes in larger denominations such as loonies and toonies.
When an anonymous poster made a plea, last week, for everyone to pause and consider the emotional fallout from adoption – this within the context of debates concerning the emotional consequences of abortion – I immediately thought of my mother and the gut-wrenching turmoil she experienced as a result of giving up a child for adoption. Abortion Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry | Her Bad Mother
On the point of giving up, I noticed a small dust covered bottle at the back of a drawer which had a few bright purple tablets in it.
The Pritchard boys tell Billy to just give up, as no dog has ever treed the coon, but Billy refuses: ‘I told them I wasn't giving up until my dogs did.’
In the reign of William IV. the Crown claimed and received a compensation of 300,000 pounds for giving up the passing tolls, and the Corporation itself was awarded upwards of 160,000 pounds on the abolition of the "package and scavage" dues. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
Also, by fixing things yourself, you are internally giving up on the delegatee and reinforcing your belief that you are the only one who can do the job. Making Work Work
But embracing their own intricate turns of temperament and giving up on feeling safe all the time is what gave Scott and Evan their music, and what gave us Lazersnake.
May 24th, 2006 at 11: 52 pm skippy says: when it comes to giving up civil rights in the name of national security to support an ill-defined war that has no focus or end in sight, skippy is jsut sick and tired of it all. Think Progress » Bush Administration Uses ‘State Secrets Privilege’ To Escape Accountability
We don't see the electromagnetic field giving up energy to matter in a continuous stream, but rather in little lumps that behave like uncharged particles that lack rest mass.
After Angus bombed, his career officially went into a lull so he enrolled at university and considered giving up acting altogether.
Wynn Resorts will pay a land premium of about 318 million patacas and pay a company connected to Stanley Ho 160 million patacas as compensation for giving up rights to part of the site.
The bank appears to be giving up any potential upside on recovery in fair value of assets. Times, Sunday Times
It is not hard to find countless examples of humanitarians giving up six-figure incomes to contribute to aid work.
He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Leaflets will be available giving up to date information and questions can be answered.
As Mike saw it, marriage would mean giving up his freedom.
Frieder on Wednesday confirmed that Holly is giving up basketball and leaving school.
You are going to enjoy giving up smoking and be so happy and relieved to be free.
I lie there listening for a few minutes and, just as I'm at the point of giving up and going back to sleep I hear it again - a faint noise, barely audible at all.
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential. Warren Buffett
Some poorer mothers are giving up work because nurseries or after-school clubs are shutting and generous childcare allowances are being cut back. Times, Sunday Times
`If we can prevent that, surely it's worth giving up an evening to suss it out? THE GOSPEL MAKERS
Apparently with the credit crunch an awful lot of people are giving up or abandoning their dogs because they can't afford to look after them. Times, Sunday Times
This lot are incapable of giving up the ghost until the final whistle has blown. Times, Sunday Times
Investors cannot bet against the world's largest economy without giving up on the rest of the world. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't 'oller no more, and was about giving up. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
Forbidden love, bitter feuds and giving up her crown. The Sun
A recent survey, published by the daily Le Parisien, showed that two-thirds of French people were against giving up their Whit Monday day off.
Crucially, check you are not giving up any valuable guaranteed annuity payments by moving. Times, Sunday Times
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Want the country idyll without giving up the City job? Times, Sunday Times
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on so long in the first place.
They are giving up efforts to dig out bodies and declaring entire communities mass graveyards after killer mudslides in Guatemala last Wednesday.
That means ... they are thinking of the possibility of reincorporation -- in other words giving up their independence with a view to form part of a broader federal structure in ANC Daily News Briefing
And I mean, I had microsurgery, even though it wasn't successful, perhaps they opened again, or perhaps it was because I was on holidays or perhaps it was because I was nearly giving up, I was letting go, you know.
Finance Minister Colin Hansen says he is not giving up his seat for Premier-designate Christy Clark, and is inclined to seek another term whenever the next election is held. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
I'm not giving up my holiday to suit you, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Giving up your seat to an older person seems to be a thing of the past.
He taught his loyal subjects saying, "People of Benares wholesomeness begins with giving up the five unwholesome actions once and for all.
I'd love to be a professional writer, but I'm not giving up my day job just yet.
It demands courage, especially if it means giving up a well-paid career. Times, Sunday Times
I had changed my name the year after my sister did, reluctantly, giving up the name signed at the bottom of my paintings so I would be harder to find. The Memory Palace
Mary stared at him hard and eventually shamed him into giving up his seat to the old lady.
Attempt doesn't necessarily bring success, but giving up definitely leads to failure.
Giving up smoking can reduce the risk of developing many smoking related illnesses.
But he knows what can be achieved through hard work and he isn't giving up hope.
Modern veganism goes far beyond giving up meat, fish and dairy. Times, Sunday Times
The commission turned down the request for an eruv but the community is not giving up. Times, Sunday Times
As we were on the point of giving up hope, a letter arrived.
The poor bloke behind the counter struggled with his keyboard, tapping away for at least a minute before giving up.
Sounds like the part-time vegetarians have been hasty in giving up their nut cutlets.
The story dies otherwise as you can't blame a person for not giving up their seat to a woman with a slight paunch.
_Click, click, click, click_ rang the hammer, and _splish, splash_ went the fragments of rock that fell in the water or were thrown into it; and thus for quite two hours Mr Temple hammered away, and after giving up a fragmentary conversation Dick and Josh grew silent or only spoke at intervals. Menhardoc
There had been rather more of a risk involved in giving up his 12-year career as an engineering draughtsman to pursue his acting ambitions without formal training at the age of 27.
The famous statement attributed to Jesus about the foolishness of giving up one's ‘soul’ for the world translates the Greek word psyche.
Giving up smoking reduces the risk of heart disease.
She blessed the holy stink of bleach for cleaning linen and her hands, stripping them of blood and urine, the slow leaks of bodies giving up the ghost and flesh together.
He was proud of himself for not giving up.
He thought about giving up his job, but then common sense reasserted itself.
It’s already a struggle, uphill, for Conservative rabbis to advocate values such as kashrut - this is a stab at doing something about maintaining the attempt, and not giving up in despair. Less brains… More meat | Jewschool
They were the spoils of gridiron warfare, and giving them up would be the same as giving up his identity. HEAVEN, TEXAS
Food, exercise, ethics, morality… all of it involves giving up something that we want because we oughtn't have it.
After 20 years on the couch, Richard is finally giving up therapy.
In other words, giving up offending foods for a couple of weeks can eventually help the body detoxify - if it leads to a new, long-term healthy mind-set.
Sachin goes on the back foot, covers the line of the ball, the bat goes up ever so gentle and then with a low backlift swings to meet the ball seam-up, the meat of the willow taps the ball, it edges past the outstretched fingers of Wasim, brushes past the umpire and races toward the boundary, the mid-off and mid-on players giving up the futile chase half-way through. Personal - Cricket Nostalgia
Arwen herself makes the decision to remain in Middle Earth (which makes her a less passive character than in the book), and the consequence of giving up her birthright is that she will die if Aragorn and his allies do not save their world from Sauron’s rule. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Lessons from Lord of the Rings, Part 2
It would be giving up its stake in its flagship women's monthly, and would develop its own rival publication.
Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages…. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
The move chosen in the game gives Black a slight edge without giving up a pawn.
Rather than giving up work at the age of 65, they will ‘cycle’ between periods of work and leisure well into their golden years.
She isn't giving up without a fight; she's scoffing broccoli heads and noni juice and shark liver oil.
The state's strict antigambling laws prohibit giving up something of value in return for a chance at receiving something of value. Utah Anti-Gambling Laws End Community Fundraising For Police Dog
It meant giving up his profession, to which he was much attached; but the estates had to be looked after and the dignity of the title maintained; and now there was leisure for the reading and writing of plays, which had been his secret ambition. Molly Brown's Orchard Home
It seems they felt that giving up a little bit of processor performance for a lot of graphics performance was a reasonable tradeoff, " says Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64.
At his press conference in Bucharest Mr Putin was asked how he felt about giving up the presidency next month (to become prime minister). "There is nothing to be sorry about.
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
Another dilemma frequently encountered is the discovery that you are in two minds about giving up your behaviour. Coping with Bulimia
The diary is not the one who will always update, but it is only the note of someday, I begin to exculpate from my giving up in the midway.
Giving up perennity and emerging oneself in time, means that one is condemned to the fads of fashion. Interview with Domenico Bartolucci
He was suffering from all the classic withdrawal symptoms associated with giving up heroin - inability to sleep, anxiety, sweating and fever.
Millions and millions of people were giving up smoking at that time without huge problems - therefore it was more about habit-forming than addiction.
Why should not his giving up his liberty to complain be consideration?
The imperial armed forces are bogged down in an unwinnable war amidst an ever more unpredictable milieu, giving up ground in Iraq while US allies Turkey and Pakistan are thrown into political crisis and Iran -- anathema to the independence-averse US establishment -- grows in influence at the heart of this strategic region, and talks with Chinese and Russian "multipolarity" advocates. Stan Goff: PING & PONG: you are the ball
If they are aware of their rights, they are either coerced or emotionally blackmailed into giving up their share in the interest of maintaining harmonious relations with their families.
Encouraged by his wife, Alfreda, Maloof began his woodworking career around 1948, giving up a job in graphic design for his first furniture commission. Jane Chafin: Discovering Sam Maloof
You know that maybe it's time for miracles 'Cos I ain't giving up on love.
You know that maybe it's time for miracles 'Cos I ain't giving up on love.
They say promises to begin the New Year afresh by giving up smoking or junk food are broken so quickly we become convinced that kicking a bad habit is beyond our control.
Instead of giving up on life, though, he persevered and found an experimental treatment for his paralysis called an "exoskeleton" that allowed him to stand and finally walk again at his recent graduation from the University of California, Berkley. VIDEO: Paralyzed Student Walks Again at Graduation
She says she was virtually blackmailed into giving up her claim to the property.
A chunky largemouth jumped once, then bulldogged under the kayak before giving up. The $50 Bass Outfit
Looks like we won't be giving up our day jobs anytime soon. The Sun
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
Elswhere, Monsieur le docteur is gaining more attention for the things he's advising people to do for their health, namely farting, burpring, and giving up deodorants. On a no-need to know basis
But this then was a lure, to trap unions into giving up their defense of their pensions, their social security and other pensions.
Before I pass out I'd like your assurance that you're not still thinking of giving up the priesthood. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The political novice is giving up his day job at Saint Giuseppe's Heavenly Pizza to come to Washington. With turnover, House becomes more of a home for the everyman
He suffered from tuberculosis, and, as his health began to fail, he made a last effort at a cure by giving up painting and repairing to his brother's property at Pomona for the pure mountain air.
Even elusive, reclusive creatures such as beaked whales are giving up data in previously unthinkable detail. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
We must not therefore preach the health benefits of giving up smoking. Times, Sunday Times
The show will have Harsha giving up his natty suits for cool denims and khakis while trailing some of the biggest names in sports.
It is unethical to effectively blackmail a player into giving up his rights with the threat of removal from the team.
He regularly invokes the name of long-time New Jersey Devils coach Jacques Lemaire, saying Lemaire's teams were known for giving up just one or two power plays a game. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
More often, of course, separation involves a younger carer giving up the role, about which there is often profound ambivalence.
It is persistence and effort and not giving up. Times, Sunday Times
By letting it continue to happen without litigation they are giving up their rights through equitable principles such as laches and perhaps even some statutes of limitations. A Shot Across the Bow
The New York Times notes in Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream, [by Nina Bernstein and Elizabeth Dwoskin, December 4, 2007] that VDARE.com’s Early Coverage Of Illegal Immigrant Mortgages
Throw all the money in the world at an untalented writer and they will stay untalented and you can bet a promising one will be standing right behind them, on the verge of giving up.
The intruders gained access to the mill's control systems using emails that tricked staff into giving up their login details. Times, Sunday Times
On the beach greet the lengthening days by giving up your lantern to be burnt on the bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of giving up when the going got tough. Times, Sunday Times
Until I know where the body of my murdered brother is, I am not giving up and you had better believe it. “perhaps we were looking in the wrong place” quote unquote is not good enough. Stop Loving Everything « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Rubbish inspectors have been giving up tricks of their trade by giving householders lessons in how to pack their dustbins in a bid to encourage more recycling.
Meanwhile John Lawer insists he won't be giving up on his epic adventure or his one-man campaign against three-wheel discrimination.

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