Example sentences for: attributing

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

  • Skeat does, indeed, in his last and longest note (I mean the one in the Cambridge Review ) go into the question as to how it came to pass that the a in Cambridge is pronounced long as in came --a point which I had not considered--and he also differs from me in attributing, without any apparent evidence, the change of the Gr of Granta into the C of Canta to the Anglo-French scribes of the twelfth century; for I was, and am still, disposed to attribute it, in part at least, to the undoubted confusion between the old forms of Cambridge and of Canterbury which I have pointed out in both my notes.

  • Pan Am 103 became a cautionary tale against rushing to judgment in attributing responsibility for a terrorist act.

  • To mystify solvers even more, puzzlers may use words in an uncommon but perfectly legitimate sense, especially by attributing to certain words ending in -er the quality of agent noun.

  • 5) For a man who takes his own cogitations extremely seriously, Krugman is remarkably cavalier about attributing motives and beliefs to others.

  • The Post piece on Middle East repercussions depicts Netanyahu attributing the current situation to Arafat, quoting him saying that "Arafat must make a choice" about whether he wants his country to "behave like a terror-sponsoring entity."


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