Example sentences for: affirming

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

  • Republicans have been floating a proposal under which the Senate, rather than voting to remove Clinton from office, would approve a resolution affirming that Clinton lied under oath and tampered improperly with the judicial system.

  • This is celestially ordained blondness, the mark of God's favor, affirming the signal beauty of the old pagan deities who had already given all blondes--torrid or chilly, fake or real--an edge for 2,000 years.

  • 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 ...

  • If you click "Join the Libertarian Party," you're required to check a box affirming that you "do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals"--just to make sure you're not Tim McVeigh.

  • In the '20s and '30s, U.S. judges even issued court rulings affirming Santa Claus' existence.


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