How to Use withdraw in a Sentence

withdraw

verb
  • They have withdrawn the charges.
  • The prosecutor withdrew her question to the witness.
  • She withdrew $200 from her checking account.
  • Due to the crash, they were withdrawn from the Poland Rally.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • Abelen was shot in the head while attempting to withdraw from the trench.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • That was the year the United States withdrew its last combat troops from Vietnam.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The union withdrew the strike notice on June 20 and agreed to return to discussions.
    Rishabh Jaiswal, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • As far as Ukraine goes, there is not even a formal treaty or agreement to withdraw from.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • What are the best ways to deposit and withdraw with Bally Casino?
    Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Heard filed an appeal but withdrew it in late 2022 and settled.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Griggsby has to approve the lawyers’ request to withdraw from the case.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Not long after the spring breakers withdraw, the summer crowd comes, then the Halloween crowd, and then the Christmas and New Year crowd.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The key, the authors write, is making sure teens know that adults lashing out or withdrawing love is due to the illness and not the child.
    Jenny Anderson, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Scalise withdrew his nomination the next day due to a lack of support.
    Caroline Linton, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • On the surface, the Dawes plan worked: Germany began to pay reparations, and France withdrew its troops from the Ruhr.
    Cyrus Veeser / Made By History, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The Cody planning and zoning board approved, then withdrew its approval and then reapproved the plan.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The shield was withdrawn from the sale after pressure from the Ethiopian government.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Combs, with the Firearms Policy Coalition, said the state reached out Tuesday to give notice of the plan to withdraw the appeal, but did not say why.
    Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The magazine withdrew the story and settled out of court.
    Lachlan Cartwright, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The boy's parents, meanwhile, have withdrawn their son from IPS and are now homeschooling him.
    Tony Cook, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Nassar announced that he had been forced to withdraw just days before he was set to compete.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • This rule has a few exceptions, like withdrawing cash at an ATM.
    Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2024
  • After a 30-minute break, Patrick said that Paxton’s team had withdrawn the motions.
    Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • After that point, they will be withdrawn from a user’s account.
    Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • That is contradicted by the fact that Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
    The Editors, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But in 2022, Burnett withdrew its request for a permit.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The company had withdrawn Gaither’s monthly bill from her account — not once, but 10 times.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And while some users in the Bahamas and the US were able to withdraw their funds before the full crisis hit, African traders may never access their money.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2022
  • On Thursday, the company withdrew the change in response to the public outrage, if only in Connecticut, for now.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Ahmad filed a lawsuit Nov. 18 in state court after her suit was voluntarily withdrawn in federal court, records show.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024

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