relinquished

How To Use relinquished In A Sentence

• Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
• In power they have relinquished that role. Times, Sunday Times
• Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy, in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors.
• He relinquished the Armed Services chairmanship in order to head the Appropriations Committee, where he secured continued funding for the war.
• Women also took on managerial roles for the first time, but relinquished their positions as soon as the men came back from fighting. Times, Sunday Times
• In power they have relinquished that role. Times, Sunday Times
• In 1983, the junta relinquished power. Times, Sunday Times
• She relinquished her claim to the property.
• He relinquished this perk as he himself prefers to live with his large family in a shack in the location.
• Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations. Camilla