Give up

"Give up" in a Sentence (22 examples)

He was surrounded, so gave himself up.

They gave him up to the police.

He gave up his seat to an old man.

The king gave up land in exchange for peace.

"Dear Miss Woodhouse, I would not give up the pleasure and honour of being intimate with you for any thing in the world."

A good pitcher will give up very few home runs.

Don't tell them where you are, and try not to give up any clues either.

Fiers, who now pitches for the Oakland Athletics, has gone 27-12 with a no-hitter in two years since leaving the Astros. But the last time he faced them, on Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs.

They gave up the search when it got dark.

Once again, the WiFi isn't willing to work. When the guard comes to check tickets, I ask him if it ever works. He rolls his eyes and tells me it rarely does. He says I'll be lucky if I get it to connect. I give up trying.

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I gave up my faith years ago.

The semi-streamlined contour of the earlier G.W.R. railcars has been given up in favour of a more utilitarian blunt-nose end, and effective floor space gained thereby.

Never gonna give you up / Never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you

The optimistic peace-and-love philosophy of his youth having given him up, he no longer knew how to reconcile himself to an increasingly phoney (he loathed, in this context, the otherwise excellent word “virtual”) reality.

"I tried retirement ten years ago. Didn't think much of it. Complete waste of time. So I gave it up after two weeks."

They gave him up for dead.

OK, I give up, you win.

Wake in a sweat again / Another day's been laid to waste / In my disgrace / Stuck in my head again / Feels like I'll never leave this place / There's no escape / I'm my own worst enemy / I've given up / I'm sick of feeling / Is there nothing you can say? / Take this all away / I'm suffocating

The next morning, Sunday, I was boxing with R., who had come over with three or four others to swap a few with me. I was given up to be the best boxer around, and I laid them cold as fast as they came at me.

He gave up that he was the one who opened the door.

Well, give it up, Prof! What did you find out!

And now She Seems give up to Sin / Too much neglecting grace within

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