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How to use forfeit in a sentence

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Given the circumstances, it should come as no surprise that the Americans won their first game by forfeit.
They didn't manage it and the courts have decreed the Korean chaps forfeit the money.
His fate changes when he loses a bet and pays his forfeit by having his hair dyed platinum blonde.
If he wants to accept Visa charge cards, that's the cut Higgins must forfeit.
In an age where trust and faith in God and governments are forfeit, humanity, expressed through fear, is the last bond of the race.
I know that I will forfeit my freedom, my reputation, my worldly possessions, and most importantly, the trust of my friends and family.
As a result of the delay and in accordance with the provisions in the regulations, the security was declared forfeit.
It may be, instead, that criminals forfeit other rights, yet the right to life is simply not forfeitable.
There was no present attempt to forfeit the lease by reason of the activities of the lessee.
By publicly borrowing library books, patrons forfeit any constitutional protections they may have had in their reading habits.
They are discharged from military service, two have their ranks lowered, and all three are ordered to forfeit pay for two months.
They would all willingly forfeit any hope to win the mayoralty rather than make such a class appeal.
Eventually he let me go, thankfully without insisting I forfeit my memory card or grovel at his feet or sign a written apology.
A forfeit, on the other hand, means that the audience was less than impressed with the scene and an appropriate punishment is meted out.
If the tour operator continues to offer the package holiday, but you decide to cancel, you are liable to forfeit monies paid.
However, those students who miss classes will forfeit their right to a grant.
Their lives are forfeit for the few hours of sick pleasure their agonies grant those who hunt them.
Should the building be left unlocked and unalarmed, the organization will forfeit their deposit and must re-apply for use.
It did not mean that statutory authority to discharge into the sewage works became forfeit upon proof of a nuisance.
The decision is particularly difficult because if she stays on in Bulgaria she could forfeit her job in Cardiff.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The bail bond I was willing, eager even to forfeit, if that would end the matter.
Any officer making a collusive seizure or other fraud was to forfeit 500 pounds and his office.
He is to forfeit a year's pay, and spend the next ten years on Dry Tortugas at hard labor.
Looking at it in the worst light, he has been guilty of nothing to forfeit his right.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
He is jeopardizing all our lives, and his own has been forfeit these years.
They were condemned to forfeit their vessel and cargo, to a fine, and to the gallies.
Therefore your lives are justly forfeit, and none would blame us if we slew you.
The former has, however, now been reduced to 2000 added to a sweepstake of 30 each with a minor forfeit.
The chief had his own mensal lands, as well as his tribute, and these he might forfeit.
If it falls or is knocked over, a forfeit is lodged, and the player who lodged the forfeit now becomes the twirler.
Abdulla was not at all willing to forfeit his independence without some struggle, and the siege of ush Turfan was pressed on.
The honest merchant in whose ship I came hath by a cunning quiddit in the law both ship and goods made forfeit to the king, To whom I will petition.
And as for your life, it is forfeit to your eagerness to buy my herd of cattle so cheaply.
It was forfeit to me,' said Kim, with deep relish, 'in Umballa, when thou didst pick me up on the horse after the drummer-boy beat me.
Going to tell her that you will forfeit your passage money and hers?
The forfeit is held over them, and each of them stoops in tarn.
To lose Macedonia, therefore, is to forfeit the life-secret of nation.
Abandoned realestate was declared forfeit and opened to homesteading.
It is the decree of the court that she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in the costs.
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