How to Use avow in a Sentence

avow

verb
  • Conger avows that at his shop, AI’s adoption hasn’t cost a single job.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Merkel herself avows that the events of 2015 cannot be repeated.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The French avow their standardization of the carte à jouer and its ancestor, the tarot.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • As of this publication though, Snoop remains a proud and avowed God-dog.
    — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 24 Aug. 2023
  • McG has gotten down into the dirt to do some of the planting himself, the studio manager avows.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
  • In a sense, the ruling party now actually avows that perspective.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But Byron’s answer was immediate and avowed.
    — Steven Rowley, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • And don't worry about tooth damage, as Crest avows these contain the same enamel-safe whitening ingredient that dentists use.
    — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Adherents to the politics of adulation have been in close combat with those who avow the politics of condemnation.
    — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Many also avow that even with the North Waziristan sweep, militants were given an early heads-up to move over into Afghanistan.
    — Hollie McKay, Fox News, 10 July 2018
  • Leaders have avowed the need to be inclusive and have tweaked recruiting machinery to nearly achieve gender parity among starting classes.
    — Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • But being better off than most people is no barrier to feeling virtuous, so long as the Elect publicly avow their commitment to the quest for social justice.
    — Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • In the courtroom drama that occupies the later part of the movie, Ernest is offered a chance to avow his misdeeds and to help bring down the system of organized crime that gave rise to them—to bear witness in the official sense.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The centerpiece will be an exhibit with 500 items on display, including many items that Santulli avowed to be one-of-a-kind and shown on a strictly look-but-please-don’t-play basis.
    — Suneel Ratan, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2003
  • By contrast, California’s public universities ignore the test scores and avow the importance of diversity.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But Scotland and Northern Ireland do not need to avow republicanism to vote for democratic self-determination.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • When on day five of his mayoralty Zohran Mamdani acknowledged the inefficacy of homeless sweeps and avowed to end them, street homeless adults, advocates, and attorneys rejoiced.
    — Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That Cody Balmer avowed the Palestinian cause in his call to 911, despite no prior connection to it, fits the general pattern, since that’s what was flitting across his screens.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The group openly avows the idealism that drew them to Obama’s first presidential campaign, along with a commitment to rational discourse in the face of partisan incivility.
    — Ben Austen, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Since the end of skinny jeans' reign as the dominant denim shape in the early 2020s, loyalists have decried wide legs and flares, avowing to stick to their preferred silhouette regardless of the shifting trends.
    — Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Schwarzman avows that giving the generation that will run tomorrow’s governments, businesses and institutions a deep, in-person view of China’s never be more important.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • The coffee giant had been quick to avow its commitment to Black Lives Matter as protests erupted over Floyd’s death, and committed $1 million to racial equity organizations.
    — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2020

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