Example Sentences

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Nolan avows the not-uncommon belief that these innovations represent a death of cinema, that digital tools not only cheapen the product and the experience but threaten the very medium of film itself.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2020

The ability to turn back whether or not you’ve reached your destination “takes preparation over many passing years,” avows Guterson.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2019

It avows an anti-elitist attentiveness to the industrially humdrum.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2019

So you’re off guard when you get to the part where he pines for reconciliation with Britain and avows that “I love my King.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2017

What kind of husbands can a society turn out that publicly and shamelessly avows the preservation and increase of property to be the object of marriage?

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail