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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.
that "a husband has more of a chance to keep his marriage together if he is rough and abusive but assertive than if he is kind and considerate but submissive."
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.
The third, in which we are still, is the phase of the assertive, theatrical leader-preacher.
Both are assertive.