Sentence examples for ascribes from inspiring English sources
'ascribes' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to attributing something to an object or person, usually in an official capacity. For example: The teacher ascribed a failing grade to the student for their missed assignment.
verb
Third person singular of ascribe
Even at the heady rates of progress that Moore's law ascribes to the computer industry (stating that the number of transistors on a chip doubles roughly every two years), things take 60 years to get a billion times better.But such comparisons flatter nuclear technology.
The IMF's research ascribes about four-fifths of that potential 6% gain in GDP to these reforms.
He ascribes the tight-lippedness of ordinary Rwandans to their culture.
This does not mean that tax reform is useless; only that the magical properties Mr Romney ascribes to it should be treated with a dose of scepticism.
But good times could be returning there, as rates actually rose in the fourth quarter, a change HRG tentatively ascribes to the resurgence in finance and banking activity.Over the course of the year, only two North American cities reported an increase in hotel rates.
This she ascribes to Britain's first-past-the-post system, which makes it nigh impossible for a nationally based third party to win a breakthrough.
In the defeat of Spanish rule, he sees "one of the greatest military achievements in human history", and ascribes it primarily to the efforts of "a handful of remarkable men".
In the 22 years since his book's first edition Mr Edgerton says such "declinism" has waned something he ascribes particularly to New Labour and the birth of a cooler Britannia.
Although Mr Piro ascribes bankers' reluctance to the distractions of Christmas and preparations for the euro, there were weightier reasons for it.
But purists will always insist on the existing variety of zahara baladi.Local lore ascribes amazing properties to the plant.
He does not deny that there are problems with Britain's poor but he ascribes them to the policies of governments over the past 30 years rather than a generic characteristic.Mr Jones offers a fairly standard left-wing analysis: Margaret Thatcher's economic reforms in the 1980s destroyed many of the old working-class communities that relied on manufacturing.
