"avowed to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to openly or formally declare or promise to do something. It can be used in various contexts, such as expressing one's commitment, determination, or belief. Here is an example: After years of struggling with his addiction, John finally avowed to get clean and turn his life around.
Have you ever met anybody who avowed to be a public intellectual?
Tribesmen, speaking to the local news media, have avowed to avenge the deaths of men from their tribes who had been killed in the fighting.
For Machiavelli, who avowed to treat of men as they were and not as they ought to be, history would become the basis of a new political science.
How smaller, shabbier and curiously more vulnerable they look, without that EU cloak they avowed to detest draped around their shoulders.
Passmore avowed, "To the best of my information and belief, the above-mentioned vessel... is being equipped and fitted out... to cruise and commit hostilities against the Government and people of the United States of America".
The question is whether the company avowed to "make money by doing good things" can finesse Big Dog and its brethren sufficiently to assist an old person out shopping or run to a stricken hiker's aid, rather than launching bits of masonry like a siege engine.
Over the years, he has led countless strikes and land seizures, avowing to upend economic inequality and show solidarity with the rural poor.
I sat down to write this post with an invigorating enjoyment in reimagining some of the formative outer and inner experiences of early childhood and avowing, to myself and to others, an unshaken fidelity to them.
What do you aspire and avow to do or be in 2009 "even though"?
Neil Parnell's Nein Records have done this by avowing to drop a hot single every single week this year.
Ennahda party leaders have said that the Assembly will focus on democracy, human rights and a free-market economy -- and will not introduce Sharia law or other Islamic concepts to alter what they avow to be a secular constitutional text.
