Example sentences for: avowed

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

  • Culturebox is an avowed fan of the great American huckster tradition, whence Modern Library stems.

  • Ranke, with his avowed intention to show history wie es eigentlich gewesen --how it really was--and with his ambition to put the study of history on a scientific footing, doubtless had a more pervasive influence on the formal output of generations of historians.

  • A unanimous jury condemned avowed racist Lawrence Russell Brewer for killing James Byrd Jr., a black man who was dragged alive for three miles behind a pickup truck before his head was torn off by a concrete culvert.

  • Editors of the Duke Review , a conservative campus periodical, avowed that Western values are "superior to the values of a primitive, impoverished country like India."

  • In an interview, the 68-year-old Murdoch details his overdue midlife crisis: divorce, a move to a downtown Manhattan loft, a nubile new wife, and an avowed attempt to dress like his twentysomething sons.


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