Sentence example with the word 'assert'

assert

advance, argue, champion, espouse, issue a manifesto, pose, propose, refute, set forth, stand up for, take no denial

Definition v. state categorically

Last update: June 20, 2015


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Everyone has to assert for the law to be passed.   [verb]

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The lawyer asserted her innocence.   [verb]

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She asserted that she would not yield to any pressure.   [verb]

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History is littered with the bloody consequences of attempts to assert the supremacy of one race over another.   [verb]

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Zionists assert that nearly one million Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries in the 20th century.   [verb]

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"That the Huron is a liar, is very evident," returned Heyward, coolly; "you have yourself heard him assert you to be La Longue Carabine."   [verb]

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Silence being obtained, Morton proceeded to assert the good faith which he had displayed in the treaty with Monmouth, and the active part he had borne in the subsequent action.   [verb]

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The German, determined, it would seem, to assert the vantage-ground on which the discovery had placed him, replied with great pomp and stateliness to the attack of the Antiquary.   [verb]

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"I was not tired in the least," asserted Henriette.   [verb]

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Scott never asserted that she was a representative of sober Presbyterianism.   [verb]

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