Example sentences for: subscribes

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

  • Chatterbox, strongly influenced by a 1992 James Mann piece in the Atlantic Monthly (which is finally online; click here to read it) has himself been fairly pro-Felt lately, and subscribes to Mann's thesis that if it wasn't Felt, it was someone else at the FBI.

  • Here's another reason to be skeptical of the hypothesis that people care deeply about how their income compares with others': I've never met anyone who subscribes to the analogous theories about leisure or risk.

  • As for "middle-class mores," a culture eager to embrace the V-chip surely subscribes to other beliefs besides the desirability of transgression at any cost.

  • ) "Holy Ghost power !!" might sound like something out of a used-car commercial--and Duvall is as clear-eyed on the capitalism-evangelism correlation as the Marxist-leaning Antony Thomas in his skeptical 1980s documentary Thy Kingdom Come ...Thy Will Be Done . But Duvall also subscribes to an American dramatic tradition (which can be discerned in works as various as The Iceman Cometh and The Music Man ) that says that any fervent belief, even one based on uncertain premises and fueled by an impure source, can give life, the way a placebo can be an authentic remedy if it empowers the body to heal itself.

  • Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying ("They hadn't slept together for 12 months" screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace.


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