Example Sentences

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The ability to turn back whether or not you’ve reached your destination “takes preparation over many passing years,” avows Guterson.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2019

It avows an anti-elitist attentiveness to the industrially humdrum.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019

In the most poignant number from his new album, the father-and-son-referencing “Just Call Me, Hank,” Williams avows, “I don’t care about the Hall of Fame.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2016

In the Autobiography, Franklin avows that he grew his fledgling printing house by observing Poor Richard’s advice—and by making a show of it.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

An apostle avows it to be his aim to "provoke to emulation."

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.