Example sentences for: affirming

How can you use “affirming” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A decade later, he has entered the scene again, dressed now in the finery of the Euro-American, a pitiable white who can't find his heritage but doesn't want to get left behind in the parade of affirming identities.

  • Above all, said Harkin, Rehnquist was affirming that the Senate "can take into account not just the facts and the law, but the public good ...

  • But Barak's aides, while affirming that "no peace process shall prevail over the personal security of the people of Israel," rejected the premise that the former threatened the latter.

  • Accused of using a private company to carry his campaign loans, DeLay had trouble affirming or denying his connection to the business, answering with Clintonesque equivocations.

  • They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.


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