avow

Example Sentences

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There are still Laemmles in the movie business, and any Los Angeles cinephile will avow that the family is doing God’s work.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

U.S. secretary of state John Quincy Adams, however, considered it “more candid as well as more dignified” for the new country “to avow our principles explicitly” than to allow the British to take the lead.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

"Instead of trashing volunteerism as inherently elitist, why not avow and attest to its ongoing value as a vital part of necessary diversification and cultural change?"

From Fox News • Oct. 17, 2021

He seems able to avow that desire readily and frankly!

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2021

“I avow, Serjeant, we shall commit ourselves wholly to philosophy without a grain of intelligence intermixed.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson