How to Use avowal in a Sentence

avowal

noun
  • The couple exchanged avowals of love.
  • I didn't believe her avowal of innocence.
  • There was no display of pyrotechnics about it, no avowals of revenge.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • Still, there’s an ambiguity in her avowal.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • At the crucial moment, when everything is at stake, their avowal of love becomes akin to a children’s game, played with chalk at a table.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • O’Hara, who happened to be working at the museum’s front desk, witnessed this momentous avowal, and made sure everyone heard about it.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • In passing asides and straight-to-camera avowals, Jason shares his strategies for flattering clients’ figures and playing to their personae.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Curtains billow violently above the men below, waving hats and arms, focusing their energy on a standing figure who holds his right hand up in a solemn gesture of avowal.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The campaign functioned more as a feminist manifesto — an avowal of belief in women’s power and a bid to dress those customers — than an overt political statement.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2016
  • These relationships ranged from the supportive love of sisters, through the enthusiasms of adolescent girls, to sensual avowals of love by mature women.
    — Sara Petersen, Vox, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Brown left the courtroom while Currie testified on avowal, meaning her testimony is included in the record for a possible appeal but not considered by the judge.
    — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Speeches land as heartfelt confessions as hesitant characters gently lay the groundwork until the moment of avowal becomes unavoidable.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The tattered work, made in the wake of the Great War and the ongoing deadly ruin of influenza, is a monumental avowal of artistic freedom in rebuilding.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
  • Her transgressiveness and frank avowal of desire was radical at the time, but in ways that don’t necessarily track comfortably with contemporary feminisms.
    — The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • Both officers, O’Neill reported, also refuted the suicide avowal and instead surmised that the car was possibly dumped after the death.
    — Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • Hoex’s narrator repeatedly demonstrates a desire to relinquish the human form—an avowal not of beastiality but of curiosity.
    — Zoë Hu, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Bergman filmed from his personal standpoint, that of a man considering women with a range of emotions that include wonder, admiration, incomprehension, and lust, and what may ring strangest about his work now isn’t his gaze but his avowal.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The quirky paintings, touchingly civilized, are a gentle but firm avowal of humanity during extraordinarily trying times.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
  • And there is a funny anecdote about George Lucas deflecting her question, about the lack of panties and bras available for fitting during the filming of Star Wars, with an avowal that there’s no underwear in space.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • Poland, controlled alternately by Russia and Germany for much of the 20th century, was subject to such rule for decades, an experience that has informed an avowal and a consensus that the only way to prevail is to refuse to be dominated.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023

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