Sentence examples for was confess from inspiring English sources
verb
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
All he had to do was confess to a murder on the Devils Lake Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, for which he was convicted in 1986, and show a little remorse.
His defence strategy, it appeared, was "confess and avoid" – to admit to the lesser charges in an attempt to avoid conviction for the two more serious child sexual abuse offences.
Her first hit was "Confess".
The overdubbed song was "Confess," in 1948.
He was confessing to murdering six people.
"He was confessing his flaws".
Mr. Mueller was confessing all kinds of dysfunction, as well.
"I didn't understand what it was," confessed one, who thought it must be his coursework.
Sotatsu may or may not have known what he was confessing to.
The RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was confessing to the wrong crime; its slogan was perfectly grammatical.
I felt like I was confessing to a crime after all those years on the run.
