Sentence examples for pledged to read from inspiring English sources

One Monday, I voluntarily and unthinkingly stacked seven-hundred-plus pages of dense but neatly justified federal type upon my desk and pledged to read it all.

So far, according to local paper the Sandusky Register, 70 residents have pledged to read the book, but Kipen, an author and book critic, needs the remaining 58 to sign up, or he'll be facing a nasty case of indigestion.

The renewed interest in Tolstoy, resulting from the film about his final days, The Last Station, reminded me that more than a year ago I'd pledged to read War and Peace.

Organisers Together Against Grooming (TAG) said imams at hundreds of mosques had pledged to read the sermon to congregations during Friday prayers.

Lethem had pledged to read all 467 pages of the book over the course of a series of evenings around New York.

You can add your name to the list of people who pledge to read a Qur'an and send a message to the fools behind the International Burn a Koran Day at the Read a Qur'an Day website.

From now on, I pledge to read only in Italian.

From Herbert Hoover's vow to end poverty in 1928, thus proving that the secret of great comedy is indeed great timing, to Bush senior's pledge to read his lips no new taxes, and his son's pledge to hit a golf ball a long way, politics is littered with outrageous promises and whopping great lies.

Let's pledge to read more.

Malorie Blackman pledged to get "more children reading more" and she started the amazing Young Adult Literary Convention (Yalc) event, which is on for the second year running next month (read about the fabulous line-up).

Later, while Carson was preparing her papers, which she'd pledged to give to Yale, Freeman read about how the papers of the writer Dorothy Thompson, recently opened, contained revelations about her relationships with women.