Example sentences for: recanted

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

  • "Mayor McCheese recanted his support for NAFTA."

  • Goldwater later recanted this view, and even the most conservative Southern politicians now laud the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which removed barriers that legally prevented blacks from living and working where they wished.

  • Isikoff also reported, in the same August story, that Steele then recanted, and told him (Version #2) that Willey had only "told her about the incident weeks after it happened, saying only that the president had made a pass at her."

  • An alleged copycat case of three white men dragging a black man from a car has been recanted.

  • I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.


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