asseverate

Example Sentences

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Why merely say something, when they can declare, assert, expostulate, announce, or asseverate it?

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

—At this, the Boy suffered some Confusion, then to asseverate, My Tutor is deceased, Sir.

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

"He and Bertha Petterick are together, that is why he is so late," the fiend would asseverate.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah

"Wh-why, nobudy ever heard me talkin' things that's tol' in secret," Mike made haste to asseverate.

From The Lookout Man by Bower, B. M.

All this flashed through her mind with lightning rapidity while Mr. Dehnicke continued to asseverate his friendship for Walter, and look at her with his round eyes in undesirous adoration.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann