How to Use renounce in a Sentence

renounce

verb

• He renounced his old way of life.
• Many of his former supporters have renounced him.
• Even the frogs seemed to want to renounce their noisy bodies.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2023
• As part of the deal, the investment firm agreed to renounce its claims on Telegram.
  — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• But what happens when the friend that renounces love with you finds it for herself?
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 6 Dec. 2023
• He is brought to his knees and pressured to renounce his beliefs.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
• But Youngkin did not go out of his way to renounce Trumpism either.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• When the New York Times covered the tail end of the trend in 2000, Anderson renounced the idea that his furniture was churchy.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023
• Anderson had to renounce his US passport in the process.
  — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 25 July 2023
• First, move out of the U.S. and renounce your citizenship.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2023
• But for some former citizens, the price to renounce that status has long been steep.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• McCarthy wasn't the only senior Republican to renounce his heresy on the road to the midterms.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• But will the wealthy willingly join a movement to renounce their unearned perks?
  — Anjali Enjeti, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Coyotes renounced his rights 22 days after he was drafted.
  — Emma Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• She was persuaded to renounce her claim and to sign an N.D.A., in exchange for a million dollars.
  — Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Everyone on earth has to renounce their wish, meaning that she would be forced to live without Steve once again.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• Will Ellie renounce her future endowment for the love of Jack?
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2022
• The fans, the media, and the team need to renounce all worry about the macro implications of winning or losing Wednesday’s game against the Bucks or Thursday’s with the Bulls.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• In exchange, the Taliban agreed to cease attacks on foreign troops and to renounce terrorism.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• Early saints who had died as martyrs – that is, who died rather than renounce their Christian faith – came to be pictured standing by a palm tree.
  — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2023
• The only way to stop having to file — and, for some expats, pay — U.S. taxes is to renounce U.S. citizenship.
  — Allyson Lindsey, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Then Israel captured it in the 1967 war and Jordan later renounced its claim to the territory.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• For some, this could be done while seeking to renounce U.S. citizenship.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Those holds can be renounced, but doing so dissolves a player’s Bird Rights with their previous team.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• People trying to evade a two-cent tax would also have to renounce their citizenship to skip out on paying them.
  — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 28 Jan. 2021
• Hollings later renounced the legislation that bears his name.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• According to the brand, Telfar wants to give its band of creatives a platform to do their thing without having to renounce ownership of their ideas.
  — Shelby Ying Hyde, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2021
• That being said, the status quo is that lighter-skinned Latinos are better and many people are not ready to renounce that, for whatever reason.
  — New York Times, 21 June 2021
• In her late 20s, Glück grew frustrated with writing and was prepared to renounce it entirely.
  — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Republican leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.
  — CBS News, 22 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024