Sentence examples for but sworn from inspiring English sources

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Talking to Asif Kapadia can feel like talking to an obsessive; someone so fascinated by one thing that they have not only consumed all they could about their subject, but sworn to preserve the truth about them, too.

One, I didn't know who the hell Tull was; and two, I had all but sworn to myself that I would not get involved in another TV project until I'd healed from the years of hell I'd just emerged from.

Harley was always polite with her, in the way that Americans are: doggedly courteous and, at the same time, utterly remote, like the landing party in an old episode of "Star Trek," curious and well-meaning and occasionally bewildered, but sworn not to interfere in the everyday life of their hosts.

What's not nice about the MacArthur fellowship is that you have to be nominated, and the nominators are all but sworn to secrecy.

Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Not only felt it coming, but swear they predicted it beforehand — remember?

He was exceedingly polite in public, but swore like a stevedore in private.

She yearned to apply there but swore the opposite to her mother and grandparents.

Swear by all means, but swear responsibly, or you'll ruin it for all of us.

What makes it worse is that Chris did it but "swears he can't remember".