AVOW in a Sentence

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Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

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 Meanings and Examples of AVOW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
avow
 v.  declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  But, let us avow it, this idea, which seemed natural at the first blush, appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and almost repulsive.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS
3  For some time I was lost in conjecture as to the cause of this, but yesterday an idea struck me, and if it is well founded, I conjure you to avow it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  All were silent; for none thought it safe, in the presence of the Grand Master, to avow any interest in the calumniated prisoner, lest he should be suspected of leaning towards Judaism.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  , and departed to Euston Station with the avowed intention of catching the Liverpool express.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
6  The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
7  The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  The opinions which she felt strongly, she avowed boldly; and Cedric, who could not free himself from his habitual deference to her opinions, felt totally at a loss how to enforce his authority of guardian.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
11  But old Simeon Halliday often declared it was as good as any music to him, and the children all avowed that they wouldn't miss of hearing mother's chair for anything in the world.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  Albert let himself be pressed just as long as friendship required, and then avowed to Franz that he would do him a great favor by allowing him to occupy the carriage alone the next day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 36. The Carnival at Rome.
13  In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34
14  Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  Candide, who had his heart upon his lips, told the Spaniard all his adventures, and avowed that he intended to elope with Miss Cunegonde.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Lana began to avow that she never meant to steal Debbie's boyfriend.
2  A false friend is worse than an avowed enemy.
3  It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.