Sentence examples for stating something from inspiring English sources

When Marilynne Robinson described fiction as "an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification" she was stating something almost everyone would agree with.

When Nicolas Sarkozy said Brexit would be "a catastrophe for [Britons] and for us, and when Alain Juppé said "it would not be good for anyone", they were basically stating something that Hollande might have said.

It's not just celebrities either, pretty much anyone with a media platform can end up confidently stating something as fact which turns out to be anything but, like claiming that eating curry with rice and chips is a new idea, or condemning people for anthropomorphising a horse while anthropomorphising a horse (wrongly, as it happens).

In the next line, Bishop came as close as she could to stating something that was true; the "coziness tinged with melancholy" has gone and it has been replaced by another sort of melancholy, a slow, stoical melancholy, when she says: "Nature repeats herself, or almost does".

"We threw ourselves into the abyss of stupidly stating something and seeing where it took us".

(1) is a relevance implicature: the speaker implicates an answer to an expressed or implied question by stating something related to it by implication or explanation.

It was my turn to state something as fact.

One co-author sometimes states something that the other knows to be untrue.

But just so there is no confusion, let me state something clearly.

A clean-shaven, suntanned general stated something that was inaudible to us.

If you state something with aplomb, then people feel it's true.