swore

[swawr, swohr]

verb

1. a simple past tense of swear.

swore

/ swɔː /

verb

1. the past tense of swear

Example Sentences

Their fraud inflicted unfathomable harm on the people they swore to serve.

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As an undergrad at the University of Texas, he swore off weekly Longhorns games and eschewed his beloved Dallas Cowboys to concentrate on writing, a practice he has maintained with Calvinist devotion ever since.

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Pushed to her wits’ end, Linda can no longer suffer those limits, even if she knows that it’s against the same code she swore by when becoming a therapist herself.

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“Don’t be looking for trouble,” Leroy tells Charlotte, who responds, “There’s going to be trouble anywhere we go. That’s the country you swore your life to defend.”

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President Ahmed al-Sharaa was once aligned with Islamic State before switching allegiances to Al-Qaeda, then ultimately swore off extremism as he and his forces fought to control Syria.

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Related Words

• affirm 
• assert 
• depose 
• testify 
• vow