took the pledge
Example Sentences
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No one took the pledge, either staying silent or listing off their companies' talking points.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021
Greg McNeilly, spokesman for Dick DeVos’s company, the Windquest Group, said the secretary’s husband took the pledge to mean he should no longer contribute to candidates in federal races.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017
To those who took the pledge, the council offered bumper stickers that read: SAY NO TO OPEC.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fisher is one of more than 1,000 "locavores," self-styled concerned culinary adventurers, who took the pledge last month to eat nothing--or almost nothing--but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, with an air of awful determination, as if he were binding iron bars and padlocks on his thirsty lips, Jem took the pledge.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
