How to Use avow in a Sentence

avow

verb

• Merkel herself avows that the events of 2015 cannot be repeated.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• The French avow their standardization of the carte à jouer and its ancestor, the tarot.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
• As of this publication though, Snoop remains a proud and avowed God-dog.
  — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 24 Aug. 2023
• The founders of Boerum Hill all avowed a desire to live in an integrated neighborhood.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• The problem is when his mandates haven’t matched his statements—or his avowed ohana principles.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
• Those of us who have tied ourselves to President Trump and who have avowed to support his policies are winning.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2018
• Many also avow that even with the North Waziristan sweep, militants were given an early heads-up to move over into Afghanistan.
  — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• The video premiered during a ceremony hosted by pop star and avowed Swift nemesis Katy Perry.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
• In a sense, the ruling party now actually avows that perspective.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• In the courtroom drama that occupies the later part of the movie, Ernest is offered a chance to avow his misdeeds and to help bring down the system of organized crime that gave rise to them—to bear witness in the official sense.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• And don't worry about tooth damage, as Crest avows these contain the same enamel-safe whitening ingredient that dentists use.
  — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
• The centerpiece will be an exhibit with 500 items on display, including many items that Santulli avowed to be one-of-a-kind and shown on a strictly look-but-please-don’t-play basis.
  — Suneel Ratan, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2003
• Adherents to the politics of adulation have been in close combat with those who avow the politics of condemnation.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• But being better off than most people is no barrier to feeling virtuous, so long as the Elect publicly avow their commitment to the quest for social justice.
  — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• The lax oversight has likely allowed avowed extremists and gang members to enlist in the military without scrutiny.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• By the incoherent finale, avowed super-skeptic Jen unconvincingly stans over the X-Men.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• Leaders have avowed the need to be inclusive and have tweaked recruiting machinery to nearly achieve gender parity among starting classes.
  — Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
• After the event, Chris Berry — a retired telephone company technician — says without prompting that the topic that stood out most for him was Steyer’s avowed support for slavery reparations.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry.
  — Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
• The coffee giant had been quick to avow its commitment to Black Lives Matter as protests erupted over Floyd’s death, and committed $1 million to racial equity organizations.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Lemoi’s folksy Rhode Island accent, his avowed regular-guy-ness, and his refusal to take any money in exchange for his advice made him into an alt-wellness influencer and a personal hero for those who followed him.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
• The group openly avows the idealism that drew them to Obama’s first presidential campaign, along with a commitment to rational discourse in the face of partisan incivility.
  — Ben Austen, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• The destructive consequences of undermining the foundations of capitalism simply do not concern them, many of them being in any case avowed communists.
  — Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
• Prosecutors, who have been criticized in recent weeks for their long inaction despite Matzneff’s avowed pedophilia, are moving on a separate track that could lead to more criminal charges.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2020
• But Scotland and Northern Ireland do not need to avow republicanism to vote for democratic self-determination.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• Prosecutors, who have been criticized in recent weeks for their long inaction despite Mr. Matzneff’s avowed pedophilia, are moving on a separate track that could lead to more criminal charges.
  — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Even those of us with zero avowed interest in fashion are prone to feel anxiety, vulnerability and dissatisfaction around our pants.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• By contrast, California’s public universities ignore the test scores and avow the importance of diversity.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• This third Palestinian political movement might respond to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s granting senior ministries to avowed racists – one of whom has multiple convictions for terrorism — by holding silent vigils in front of those ministries.
  — David Super, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2024
• While avowing eternal solidarity with Holocaust survivors and the Jewish people, Abbas mentioned neither Israel’s role in expelling his people nor its failure to guarantee that such a mass expulsion event can never recur.
  — Omri Boehm, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2020

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024