Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: forsaken
IPA transcription: [fɔɹs'eɪkən]
Usage examples
  • "I haven't forsaken you."
  • You will not be forsaken.'
  • She said it, and she mean it; yet, when he had turned his back, she felt more forsaken than before.
  • These poor friends would never understand why she had forsaken them; and there were many others besides.
  • 'Alas!' said the young man, 'her father is a wandering good-for-naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off--who knows where?
  • I was at the station myself--two miles from this forsaken place--to make sure that Hathaway didn't skip while I was waiting for orders.
  • But his sister wept, and begged him not to go: "If they kill you, dear fawn, I shall be here alone in the forest, forsaken by the whole world."
  • The abandoned rake put on the outward sedateness of a philosopher; the scoffing sinner proclaimed that he had forsaken his evil ways, and would live thenceforth a model of virtue.
  • Graciosa, in solitude and darkness, groped through the forest, sometimes falling against the trunks of trees, sometimes tearing herself with bushes and briers; at last, overcome with fear and grief, she sank on the ground, sobbing out, "Percinet, Percinet, have you forsaken me?"
  • Poor, forsaken, suspected of crime, I am alone in the world, a stranger, not knowing where to lay my head. The only little corner that remained to me on the earth I am driven from, and now I shall no longer have the consolation of coming here to weep by your grave!" At these words the tears rushed forth afresh.