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Example sentences for "relinquished"

Lexicographically close words:
religious; religiously; religiousness; relikes; relinquish; relinquishes; relinquishing; relinquishment; reliqua; reliquae
  1. But both found an invincible repugnance in the people to a revolution supported by foreign arms, and relinquished the enterprise.

  2. Cosimo, seeing the firmness of the senate, relinquished the design of coming.

  3. In the course of six months he relinquished this and chose Paris as his residence.

  4. After several years of activity he relinquished his post and went to Salzburg, where he was engaged for the Mozarteum.

  5. He belonged for a longer period to the Italian Opera, but he relinquished this position after a few years.

  6. Lose was a member of the theatre orchestra, and when he relinquished the post Linke took his place.

  7. But in 1791 he relinquished this position in order to obey a summons to Zurich.

  8. When he relinquished this undertaking, he entered the Royal orchestra at Munich, to which he still belongs.

  9. Four years later he relinquished that in order to travel, and accepted a place in the band of the Duke of Dessau.

  10. Muhammed had relinquished the tiller to Captain Luigi and was dropping aguardiente between the set lips and the color was stealing slowly back into the cheeks which had been as pale as Aylmer's own.

  11. As Muhammed relinquished the helm and sprang forward, one of the deck hands ducked, tripped him, and rose between his legs--that deadly Mafiaist trick which never fails of its results.

  12. As Aylmer reined in the mare almost upon her haunches the man dropped his hand, relinquished the horse he held into the care of his companion, and approached.

  13. Landon lay where their relinquished efforts had left him, huddled against the gunwale, and staring up at his surroundings with fierce, incredulous eyes.

  14. And there was a hint of reluctance in the little sigh with which he relinquished the emptied cup.

  15. She replied that she relinquished most willingly a crown that she had only accepted out of obedience to him and her mother, and her nine days' reign was over.

  16. Pasteur relinquished this and other suggestions at once, and thought of the microbe.

  17. France long relinquished Algeria and Madagascar, which her missions and commercial stations in the seventeenth century gave her a prescriptive right to occupy two centuries later.

  18. As the insides of our mouths had become sore from eating the bone-soup, we relinquished the use of it, and now boiled the skin, which mode of dressing we found more palatable than frying it, as we had hitherto done.

  19. To that salary, however, Leeds had clung, year after year; and he now relinquished it with a very bad grace.

  20. If she had been burnt, this letter, written in her bedroom, and probably thrust into her pocket when she relinquished it, would have been burnt with her.

  21. A fiery man in such a case would have relinquished persuasion and tried palpable force.

  22. Those who had built had, one by one, relinquished their indentures, either by sale or barter, to Farmer Springrove's father.

  23. It was not relinquished till he reached her door.

  24. He relinquished his coaxing tone, and went on sternly: 'And remember this, Cytherea, I am as innocent of deception in this thing as you are yourself.

  25. He gave her hand a gentle pressure, and relinquished it.

  26. They were speaking of the sad death of Mrs. Manston, but the subject was relinquished for that of the houses burnt.

  27. Known to the Greeks as Northern Epirus, this region was awarded to Albania by the boundary delineations of 1913, but the Greeks have never relinquished their claims to the area.

  28. In July 1954 he relinquished the premiership to Mehmet Shehu, keeping for himself the more important post of first secretary of the Party.

  29. You mistake much," said Tiernay; "the partnership will not be so easily relinquished by him who reaps all the profit.

  30. Lady Kilgoff walked along without speaking, at his side, having relinquished the support of his arm with a stiff, frigid courtesy.

  31. The day passed by without further interruption, the Hurons, though possessed of a canoe, appearing so far satisfied with their success as to have relinquished all immediate designs on the castle.

  32. The prerogatives for which Charles the First had struggled were quietly relinquished by his son.

  33. After a first burst of terror at the news, the Parliament fell furiously on Cromwell, who had relinquished his command and quitted the army before the close of the war, and had ever since been employed as a mediator between the two parties.

  34. He relinquished her hand, it is true; but there was a proud and grateful look on his face; he did not even turn to regard the new-comers.

  35. But now that was passed from him; he had relinquished his stewardship; and as he absently gazed out into the black night before him, his thoughts drifted far away.

  36. He tried to turn over the body, but relinquished that effort.

  37. In fact, he only relinquished his grasp of their buttonholes when they had acquiesced in these conclusions.

  38. The two sisters immediately relinquished all idea of bringing him home.

  39. After his death the Duke of York relinquished the label of five points which he had previously borne, receiving one of three, the centre point charged with an anchor.

  40. Indeed, the contempt with which the superseded style was regarded amounted to fanaticism, and explains, in a measure, how so much of good could be relinquished in favour of so weak a successor.

  41. In England the simplicity is relinquished for the sake of distinction, and it is held that equivalent differentiation must be made, both in regard to the crests and the supporters, as is made between the shields of different families.

  42. They relinquished the guard of the gates; and the Eagles and other Ensigns, which in the beginning of the Tumult they had thrown together, were now restored each to its distinct station.

  43. Mr. Greeley saw that the 'slate' had been broken, and cheerfully relinquished the idea of being nominated.

  44. Aurelian withdrew the Roman forces from Dacia, and tacitly relinquished that great province to the Goths and Vandals.

  45. They relinquished to the Romans five provinces beyond the Tigris.

  46. Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.

  47. Impatient for battle, the Goths immediately broke up their camp, relinquished the siege of Thessalonica, left their navy at the foot of Mount Athos, traversed the hills of Macedonia, and pressed forwards to engage the last defence of Italy.

  48. That practised and disgusted philanthropist relinquished the youngest Rashnowsky to the first pair of pitying arms extended in its direction.

  49. When Valdez relinquished the Captain-Generalship, and O'Donnell began his infamous rule, Lopez felt himself released from all obligations to the government.

  50. This curb removed, Lopez gladly relinquished his offices and retired to his own estates.

  51. I may here remark, that when we relinquished the search, Gibson's tracks were going in the direction of, though not straight to, the dry ridges that Jimmy and I visited in February.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relinquished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; antiquated; antique; archaic; deserted; discontinued; disused; forfeit; forgone; forsworn; obsolete; old; out; outdated; outmoded; outworn; released; relinquished; renounced; resigned; retired; superannuated; superseded; waived