renege - use in sentences

Modifying Another Word

  • never: God never reneges on His promises, and the reward for your service awaits you.
  • subsequently: It subsequently reneges, despite intervention by Tessa Jowell.

Preposition: on

  • promise: At the WTO meeting in Geneva last week, the US flatly reneged on both promises.
  • commitment: They were paid average wages, and if they reneged on commitments given when elected, they could be instantly removed and replaced.
  • agreement: Farm fury: Farm workers ' trade union leaders say industry bosses will face a fight after they reneged on holiday pay agreement.
  • treaty: The Scots reneged on the treaties which drove Henry VIII into a fury.

Modifying Another Word

  • then: They then reneged on the deal saying that the union was " very aware that this agreement was not forever " .
  • not: In a way I had not reneged on previous preoccupations.
  • since: The former German international had signed for Bolton but has since reneged on that agreement.
  • cynically: And subsequently, rich nations have cynically reneged on their Rio promises to tackle climate change and deforestation.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • upon: This was the commitment made in 1997, which has since been cynically reneged upon.

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