Example sentences for: ascribe

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

  • I ascribe DiFi's lack of opposition to two things: assiduous courting of Silicon Valley, where major Republican contributors have lined up behind her, and, more important, the sad state of California's GOP.

  • Isn't it a little self-pitying to ascribe misplaced guilty liberalism and soggy altruism to the same folks who bring us season after season of formulaic sitcoms, spandexed soap operas, and disease-of-the-week movies?

  • You might ascribe it simply to panic, which undoubtedly played a part.

  • Humans have the most annoying tendency to ascribe cutesy attributes to wild creatures.

  • Although scholarship continues to ascribe some culpability to the British--for instance, the British did contribute to the Irish dependence on potatoes--most historians emphasize the famine was primarily a natural disaster, and conclude that British inaction was hardly part of a deliberate plan.


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