aver

How to use aver in a sentence

• It’s quietly common in amateur sports and, he avers, though most organizations ban or discourage it, marijuana use is also well-known in pro sports.

  The benefits of running high | Terri Schlichenmeyer | December 28, 2021 | Washington Blade

• The first leg of that relay, Drabelle avers, was run by Frederick Law Olmsted — the same Olmsted who “magicked” the makeover of Central Park and other urban oases.

  How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. | John Taliaferro | October 29, 2021 | Washington Post

• Northam avers that he’s not a foodie, so he doesn’t view this as a tremendous hardship.

  Virginia’s Northam copes with what could be permanent loss of smell nearly eight months after coming down with covid-19 | Gregory S. Schneider | May 14, 2021 | Washington Post

• Other than her son, producer Jesse Huot, with whom she works, Cantor avers that Tharp “hasn’t really had long-term relationships or anything.”

  There’s no stopping Twyla Tharp, even as she approaches 80 | Peter Marks | March 18, 2021 | Washington Post

• Griffin avers that the opposite proved to be the case — that because Folger is a center of imaginative investigation, her productions found a receptive audience inside the institution as well as among Washington-area theatergoers.

  Folger Theatre’s Janet Griffin announces her retirement after decades of devotion to Shakespeare | Peter Marks | January 27, 2021 | Washington Post