Example sentences for: affirming

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

  • For all its comic exaggeration (almost no gangster or Freudian cliché is left unparodied), Analyze This ends up affirming the efficacy of psychoanalysis more than any picture since Spellbound (1945).

  • 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.

  • "Were the Senate to adjourn and make these findings [affirming the House's conclusions], it would deny the President an acquittal--the result he craves for his own historic legitimacy.

  • The LAT , in its front-page piece, has this too but adds the detail that, at the insistence of Egypt, the U.S. has also accepted language in the resolution affirming the territorial integrity and independence of Iraq.

  • In the milieu of contemporary multiculturalism, that sort of illogic can be affirming.


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