Sentence examples for to avow from inspiring English sources
verb
To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
One should lie neither to deny nor to avow wrongdoing.
Everybody has the right to avow themselves part of the majority".
The situation has exacerbated our cultural tendency to avow causation in favour of fate and the rewards of prayer.
Is it you?" That it was not I, I hastened to avow, even as he wagged an insinuating finger at my nose.
Those who failed to land a job were more likely to avow violence as a tool for political change.The figures are startling.
Were we all to avow a philosophy of openness and churn our experiences into hard numbers, we could presumably improve our odds in all sorts of decisions.
"An avowed homosexual is not a role model in the Boy Scouts, and we don't extend leadership roles to avowed homosexuals".
The more recent "Letting Go of God" traced her journey from Catholic schoolgirl to avowed nonbeliever.
It doesn't quite live up to its avowed ambition to update the "fête champêtre" so memorably realized in paintings by Giorgione and Manet.
India accorded such reverence to an avowed agnostic determined to break through ancient obstructions to modernisation.
SEEK BY LAW VICTORY Hope in That Way to Limit Future Convention Members to Avowed Fundamentalists.
