Example sentences for: affirmation

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

  • The fact is that English is, idiomatically, an extremely subtle language, with many taboos, particularly in the area of positive/negative statements and degrees of affirmation and negation.

  • Editorialists called the verdict an affirmation that the truth matters more than 1) ideological fantasy and 2) self-promotion camouflaged by ideological fantasy.

  • We think it's pretty darn cool (a technical software industry term, used to imply strong feelings of affirmation), and hope you will as well.

  • It served also, as Cotgrave notes, to enforce an affirmation, as in Ouy dea , dis je; Yes, forsooth, say I.

  • The Wall Street Journal calls the 7,000 mark a perfect Valentine's Day affirmation of "investors' six-year love affair with stocks."


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