Example sentences for: avowed

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

  • When we can see into their heads, Benoit and Acheson are avowed enemies.

  • 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."

  • As we have observed in these pages on numerous occasions, the professional linguist's avowed position with regard to usage is similar to that of a medical doctor's in relation to a patient: both are charged with the responsibility of observing the phenomena they encounter without expressing qualitative opinions about them.

  • The Enquirer maintains that Gore's adherence to the Atkins diet has "dumbed him down" and "impacted his thought processes": The avowed environmentalist is eating steak and recently approved a resumption of whaling.

  • 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.


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