Example sentences for: sworn

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

  • Without a deal, is Ginsburg free to revert to Lewinsky's earlier sworn testimony that she and Clinton did not have sex?

  • Although the Marcianos are legendary for their abusive and intimidating management style--one former company CFO called Paul Marciano "psychotic" in a sworn affidavit--and for their habit of taking huge dividends out of the company's profits, they're not doing anything different today from the way they did business three years ago.

  • The Independent 's was " 'Judge in Black' is sworn in for trial of century," focussing on Chief Justice William Rehnquist's funereal garb.

  • The Washington Post carries that story inside and goes instead with another struggle between sworn enemies--the DOJ anti-trust suit against Microsoft, which goes to trial today.

  • While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.


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