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How to use given up in a sentence

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It was falling slowly, impossibly slow, as if physics had given up and allowed gravity to be enchanting instead of practical.
This was investigated and a proposal for a dam costing Rs.3.72 crore was given up as unremunerative.
Many others have tried it but given up in despair at mastering technology that almost comes naturally to children.
He has a strong jawline and is unshaven, the mark of a man who has recently given up his day job.
Now, as she sat in her room, she wished that she hadn't given up bowling, a sport she actually enjoyed playing.
After 11 days trapped down a rabbit hole, the dog had been given up for dead.
Mills said he had given up his trade of glue-making for the sock and buskin, and he hoped soon to have an engagement at one of the minors.
In town to record an edition of his BBC Radio 6 Breakfast Show, Jupitus has given up a day to the publicity machine.
Too ill to work and plagued by nervous disorders, these victims have almost given up on life.
Sadly and finally, after being dropped about fifty times, my clunky but much-admired mobile phone fascia has finally given up the ghost.
These are people who have made their peace with capitalism and have given up on the ideas of their youth.
Third, Lincoln had never given up the idea, which he had first broached in 1855, of voluntary and compensated emancipation.
He had given up surrealism on sadly realizing that you need fixed points, after all, both in life and in the arts.
Now the ACTU and the majority of union leaderships have given up any idea of tackling the Howard government's anti-union laws.
He's given up his job as a chef, and a stable home life, to pursue a higher goal for his sport and country.
When the train arrived at the other end of the single line, the staff was given up to allow a train to proceed in the opposite direction.
Cowan thinks women who say weight doesn't matter are lying but he hasn't given up hope.
While he has given up any hope of her recovering, his wife cherishes the seemingly impossible dream of a miraculous return to health.
I made the mistake of thinking that they had given up and commandeered my favorite inflatable raft to float me around the pool.
But is it possible to draw a clear line where peace and non-violence may be given up in favour of violence, even war?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then there came tidings, addressed on this occasion to Mrs. Grantly, that Cosby Lodge was to be given up.
He at least did not think that the idol had been forsaken because the use of his name was given up.
The first freehand drawing in Boston was taught there, but was given up when the public schools undertook it.
He had given up hope that O'Malley or Allison would be able to break through and crack the deathtrap.
Once he gains it, he can do with it what he will, because he has given up all love.
It shows us that in renouncing direct suggestion we have given up nothing that is not replaceable.
The people of La Guardia were then given up to the tender mercies of the Inquisition.
The house in Soho Square had to be given up at last, and we went into a side street.
About half an hour before, having given up all hope of seeing wapiti, I had decided to kill a blacktail deer for meat.
For some time she had given up visiting the temple, the ght, or the sanyasi.
The women, all the way to soya Cape, the most northern point of Yezo, have given up tattooing a long moustache and their arms.
The afternoon was generally given up to some excursion or charabanc drive, and the day finished rather somnolently in the lounge.
When they had given up, I boomed orders at them through a speaker in the crate.
What if they had given up a little of their luxury, and he his ill-gotten gains!
The Commission of Pardons awaited, chassepot in hand, the prey given up to them by the courts-martial.
I have a great and inappeasable desire to see for myself if all the nooks and corners of that place have given up their secrets.
The papers state, that they were all given up to the Marshal of Evansville, Indiana.
By the 19th all were given up, and on the 20th the troops moved back to jar.
I was an apprentice to a cordwainer, but my indentures were given up before I left England, sir.
But Napoleon did not intend that the matter should be given up or postponed.
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