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How to use disown in a sentence

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My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there.
But lots of under-age girls believe their families will disown them if they find out they are pregnant, and most are wrong.
Neither do you disown a book that provided ideas and impulses to a generation of political science professionals.
We prefer to think of ourselves as healthy and indestructible, and we disown our ailments and frailties.
The Right are trying to disown it, engaging in the most shocking revisionism and paralogical torsions imaginable.
No, I don't want to disown Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, the first of whom is something of a hero of historical linguistics.
Under the sheer weight of numbers, grandparents, aunts and uncles have begun to disown their own.
Or if the animal is on a lead, the owner stands apart as far as he can, looking away, thus making an attempt to disown it.
I'm sure your friends will feign interest for two seconds the quickly disown you if you purchase a pair to show off.
How can the government refuse to disown these anti-American slurs of its own MPs when these are hurting Canadian jobs?
If we, by means of the Corbett Report, have included it, we cannot be the first to disown it.
Milder colleagues don't want to be disloyal and disown them, but sometimes wish they'd shut up.
We may be unfaithful, but he is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self.
Her parents were furious when they learned of her condition and threatened to disinherit or disown her.
Most puzzlingly, the Liberal Democrat leader appeared to disown his party's own manifesto twice.
For all his admissions of total artistic compromise, Auburtin is far too decent to disown the movie.
At home, ministers denounce and disown the policies for which they themselves have voted in Brussels.
To disown the body will not prevent it from going ahead, the US will simply lose all influence over the way the rules develop.
Having been so central to its conception, our governments will not be able to disown the constitution lightly.
As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I'll bet my pile she'd disown you, if she knew you turned your back on a woman.
Do you mean, I said, that you disown the love of the person whom he says that you love?
Apart from such influences, Balinese art, however, does not disown its Hindu-Javanese origin.
The present duty was to disown and withstand his son in law.
For my own part, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles.
Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it.
He can disown Jennie or he can take her back, but there is no middle way.
She does not disown you in your sorrow no, not even in your guilt.
From that time he thought fit to disown your humble servant.
Disown sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of this sort should be paid to their parents.
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