swear

He came running up and he’s like, “Are you gonna swear like you do in the show?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

"I swear this has only happened to me once before."

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Devotees swear by the beer-battered mahi mahi tacos, but with salads, buffalo meatloaf and half-pound burgers also on offer, there’s something for everyone in the car.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

There’s a reason runners swear by pickle juice as a recovery drink, and why “pickle girls” have become their own corner of the internet.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

His eyes bore into me and me only when he says the last part, and I swear he knows.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

When the next president swears an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” he undertakes both to obey the Constitution and to remove threats to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

“Fargo” begins with a title card that swears the film is based on a true story.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

Clinging to the capsized kayak, Austin - who swears he "saw something in the water" - realised he needed to do something.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

“He swears to me that nobody ever told him verbally or through a text message that there was any hot spots,” Moore said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

Pim swears that I do such a good job he’ll never go to another barber after the war.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017

And again by another, “The Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them.”

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, "As the Lord liveth, he shall not be put to death."

From Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students by Soares, Theodore Gerald

At any rate," he said, more gently, "she cannot break the mighty oath she sware.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

Club Houses—Whare the hen-pecked go tew sware, and smooth out their feathers.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Whenever the tone of the film tilts toward the overly reverent, Waters comes in with a bit of wisecracking, truthtelling remembrance: Oliver chain-smoked, swore, was stubborn, walked in the forest “like a crazy person.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Platner, in damage-control mode, acknowledged that he was occasionally a lousy boyfriend but denied any sort of physical abuse, swore that he has cleaned up his act, and pledged that no more skeletons will emerge.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

The 23 senators present donned maroon velvet robes Monday and swore to "do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws of the Philippines" at the trial.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

“He swore up and down he was the fastest kid in the school,” Moore said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

When I came here, I swore I wouldn’t do any Westerns.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Mr. Netanyahu has directed Israel’s diplomacy for 16 of the past 17 years, resulting in many formal and informal alignments with nations that had long been among Israel’s sworn enemies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Darline Graham Nordone is to be sworn in at 2:30 p.m. after the state’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster appointed her to serve as an interim replacement following the longtime lawmaker’s death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

It's a sweltering Saturday in Colorado Springs as 33 new recruits, some of them baby-faced, line up to be sworn in at the Air Force Academy's Falcon Stadium.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Because of the harassment, L.H. eventually stopped trying to play any organized sports whatsoever and issued a sworn declaration in the lower courts that she would not try out for sports teams in the future.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

On everything from official census forms to sworn statements, she put her birth date down as 1893 instead of 1892, and she went on doing this for years.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

He's thought to be swearing allegiance to William as Edward's successor as king of England.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

At his swearing in he promised to usher in a "reform-oriented" era, with plans to change how much the Fed communicates and to reduce the size of its balance sheet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

He whined that the singers who pulled out of the state fair are “Third Rate” and promised he would simply headline the event, swearing he is greater than Elvis, even “without a guitar.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

She won a special election for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in 2021 after her husband, a newly elected representative, died in 2020 from complications related to Covid-19 before his swearing in.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

She said, “We will proceed with the catechism, prior to swearing him in.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White