How to Use confess in a Sentence

confess

verb
  • I confessed my sins to the priest.
  • I have to confess that I was afraid at first.
  • He confessed after being questioned for many hours.
  • He willingly confessed his crime.
  • The old urge to confess is alive.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Her hosts felt compelled to confess their grief and fury.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
  • Kylie confesses that this trip isn’t just for the girls.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Why did Ed Gein confess his crimes?
    — Jr Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Even longtime die-hards confess that its lyrics can be hard to keep straight.
    — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Why did Josh confess to Park's crimes?
    — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • How did Moore get Wuornos to confess to her crimes?
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Walls later confessed to the killings.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • This man finally found the soul to confess and put an end to this.
    — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The camera is turned away from the person who walks in to confess.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Smith confessed to letting her car roll down a boat ramp into the lake.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The trick was coming up with the nerve to confess our plans to Karl.
    — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • And be in the same space as us for that amount of time before confessing.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 22 May 2025
  • The bell rings, and our knees fall and touch the earth, our tongues confess the prescribed words.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • How come police ruled out a person who confessed to the crime not once, but twice?
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, EW.com, 27 June 2019
  • Torkhan confessed he feels racked by guilt when villagers confront him in the fields.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Neither confessed, which set Greg off.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
  • So did confessing to a crime, oddly.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026
  • As for Hogan’s murder, Gein confessed to the crime.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • At that point, Koren confessed.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Even his critics were forced to confess as much and admire his brilliance.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • More than a month later, in April, Loudon confessed to his wife.
    — William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Out of love, Marcus confessed to the crime and had been in jail ever since.
    — Meg Walters, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2025
  • As Thunberg travels the world, some have confessed to her a kind of shame.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Police said around the time of the arrest that one of the suspects confessed to the crime.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Gein confessed to killing Hogan and stealing nine female corpses.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025

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