Sentence examples for used to assert from inspiring English sources

I used to assert proudly that my husband and I were both virgins when we married.

Peter Marks, his predecessor, used to assert that there was unanimous support within the Co-op for expansion in banking.

It also characterised Taiping as a rock, meaning it could not be used to assert territorial claims over surrounding waters.

Breivik and other neo-Nazis used to assert racial superiority; now they claim an existential threat from Islamic culture.

Spreadeagled poses in humans and animals have always been used to assert dominance, and are most often displayed by men.

Growing up in India, I developed a keen awareness of how dietary taboos around meat could be speciously used to assert caste or religious superiority, often violently.

For someone used to asserting his will it must have been particularly frustrating to stand by impotently while his wife succumbed to terminal illness.

"They wanted to buy something that they could use to assert against someone else," he wrote in one.

Doing so will allow him to use his bully pulpit to show that he is focused on addressing joblessness, the issue that more than any other could shape his electoral prospects and that Republicans are using to assert that his policies have failed.

Why? BECAUSE they wanted to buy something that they could use to assert against someone else.

The Second Sex continues to prove relevant to both today's third feminist wave and transgendered individuals for having refuted the essentialism of biological determinism that held gender as defined at birth, and replacing it with the theoretical framework that a later generation will use to assert that gender is a construct subject to choice.