asseveration

Example Sentences

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The only five minutes during which he had appeared really awake had been when some one in the smoking-room repeated Julian Grant's asseveration that the German atrocity stories were "faked."

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

Then, as though her asseveration had slightly mollified her, she added: "Or if I do——" and, then paused.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

Peter could have made no stronger asseveration; for he highly valued the long appendage to his bushy head, and of all creatures he hated cats.

From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens

John indeed follows up his statement of what he saw with an unusually strong asseveration that what he says is true.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus

"There can't nobody live in peace in them two blocks, Judge, your Honour," came the heated asseveration of the man in the witness chair.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville