Example sentences for: affirmation

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

  • The pledge ends with an affirmation of the essential promise of our democracy - "with liberty and justice for all."

  • It is at once an affirmation of one’s manhood and one’s culture” (1985, 179–180).

  • If we think of the prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude as an affirmation of autonomy, then the passive sentence of the Thirteenth Amendment could be rewritten, without change of content, in the form of the German Basic Law:

  • 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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