How to Use admit in a Sentence

admit

1 of 2 verb
  • They refused to admit her to the club.
  • I hate to admit it, but he's right.
  • The patient was very sick when she was admitted to the hospital.
  • He was admitted last night for chest pains.
  • The judge decided to admit the evidence.
  • You know you're wrong! Admit it!
  • This ticket admits one person.
  • He admitted them into his office.
  • Gustin is the first to admit that.
    — Christian Dashiell Published, Parents, 18 June 2026
  • Dane admits that first sales trip spoiled him for life.
    — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • But here's the thing that took me a while to admit.
    — Harold Bell, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Smith is the first to admit life is hard these days for him.
    — Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • But good luck getting any of them to admit it.
    — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • No one came forward to admit that.
    — Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • We’re not supposed to admit things like that, right?
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Eaton, too, admits the price and hype of the big game have gotten to be a lot.
    — Patrick Whittle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Trump is not a man who ever admits a mistake.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But, Biles had to admit that wouldn't be an option.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • At this point, the woman admits she is simply fed up.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And that’s more dangerous than any of us would like to admit.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The same is true today, more than critics care to admit.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The fear of being judged for admitting the hard parts.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • He was admitted and stayed there for 10 days.
    — Hazlitt, 11 Mar. 2026
  • One ticket admits two and includes a book copy.
    — La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bryson Graham isn’t afraid to admit that this is a dream come true.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Campbell can admit these days that that wasn’t their cleanest game.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The first step was admitting there was a problem.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • That matters more than many politicians care to admit.
    — Larry Clifton, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Heat coaches and players aren’t afraid to admit it.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ari Emanuel admits Toberoff can be a pain, even for him.
    — Tom Dotan, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026

admit

2 of 2 noun
  • Emotion plays a much larger role than most admit.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • In fact, schools with low single-digit admit rates could do this many times over.
    — Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Even high school graduates who plan to go to college admit to doubts.
    — Jon Marcus, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • To his credit, Scott kind of admits that the two of them are together.
    — Alexis Nedd, Cosmopolitan, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In a separate study, of those who work from home, about 91% admit to not taking a break — not even for lunch.
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 6 May 2022
  • The driver did admit there may be empty beer cans and some marijuana inside of the SUV.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Suggesting that while these catastrophes seem to play out far afield, their ramifications are widespread and closer to home than most admit.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • Even those staffers who prefer the larger Blackwing admit that the smaller Blackwing is a spectacular car in its own right.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Meanwhile, 67% admit that failure to invest in a digital future means that there won’t be much of a future to consider.
    — Dmitry Dolgorukov, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • In general, since the start of coronavirus in the United States, three in four admit to using streaming services more.
    — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2020
  • But just like MomTok admits, switching things up on occasion can make for interesting results.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Even when people take time out, half admit to bringing their work laptops on vacation, and 41% frequently join video calls, which leaves them even more exhausted.
    — David Morel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Dyche did admit however that managers staying in roles for extended periods of time have become aberrations and that one never knows what the future holds.
    — SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Practicing and playing from January to December, with a two-month break in between, the players and Petrie admit has been a grind.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
  • And those, like Brantley, who’d as soon endure a week’s worth of sensitivity training as admit to using one of these hyper-trendy ballistic newcomers.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 21 Dec. 2020
  • However, as the authors of the paper admit, there is very little research on the best measures that managers can take to improve employee well-being, or indeed which are the most cost-effective.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • More selective schools have undergraduate admit rates below 50%.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The Eagles advanced to two previous Super Bowls, but lost both to add what some in the city admit is something of an inferiority complex.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Dogecoin continued its recent surge Wednesday, hitting new all-time highs and making even the most skeptical admit that the vaulted $1 price goal is looking more and more achievable.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 May 2021
  • Clune told the Wisconsin State Journal that the university’s swift decision to re-admit Cephus may have broken the law.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Even the biggest cheerleaders for immigration maximalism admit, for example, that low-skill immigrants drive down the wages of previous low-skill immigrants.
    — Fred Bauer, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
  • An earlier version of this story contained some incorrect admit rates for students with scores above and below an SAT score of 1400.
    — Joseph Soares, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The majority of the cases were identified through routine, asymptomatic testing, including during travel, or before a health procedure or admit.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • According to the federal government, there have been 368 cases in the past three years, and that is almost certainly an undercount, as even the officials in charge of record keeping admit.
    — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The Asian American share of admits has risen in recent years — a telltale sign, the plaintiff argued, that Harvard had adjusted its practices under pressure from the lawsuit.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Removing preferences for race, legacy and athletics would result in a 50% increase in the number of Asian-American admits, the plaintiffs’ expert said.
    — Nicole Hong and Melissa Korn, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • The two admit now – Adrianne with a chuckle and DeVaux through tears – that their sisterly relationship suffered for a while, as DeVaux tried to square peg her sister.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
  • For instance, Dartmouth announced that 18% of their early admits were first generation students; meanwhile, 19% of those admitted early at Brown were first-gen.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Those orders built upon a longstanding federal court ruling requiring the hospital admit defendants within seven days to avoid unconstitutionally long jail stays.
    — oregonlive.com, 4 June 2019
  • The agreement requires that ComEd admit wrongdoing, pay a $200 million fine and cooperate with investigators in return for dismissal of the charge later.
    — Michael Tarm, Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020

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