swore
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Swore Kuhn: "I'll never go back to politics again."
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Last week the President also: > Swore in Christian Herter.
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Swore he’d rather go naked than wear some other kid’s rags.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Swore it was the electricity; said he swallered it, and it got into his system and cured him.
From Geoffrey Strong by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
Swore he by God’s majesty, Sorer far is his regret For bright-favoured Nicolette p. 68Than his kinsfolk every one, Though they all were dead and gone.
From Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French by Bourdillon, Francis William
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