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Example sentences for: assertive

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

If it's really a no-hoper, you must be assertive and spare both of you more years of unhappiness.
President Carter's assertive national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, took charge, and the coordination function remained thereafter in the White House.
This is a far cry from the assertive Emperor Meiji, whose radical social and political policies in the late-19th century launched Japan into the modern era.
Gore was more assertive and, some argue, more personable than in the past.
Those feminists who emphasize success within the world as we know it tend to encourage women to purge their speech of tag endings and to retrain themselves to speak in what is perceived as a more masculine, more assertive way.