Example Sentences

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“I seen him ride,” one local avers, “and he ain’t no tenderfoot.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Stephen Carter, author and Yale law professor, avers that “Democracy demands dialogue and dialogue flows from disagreement.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

At every turn, there’s a caress waiting, even if it’s a gambit for affection: “I got a lot on my mind, and I gotta share the pain,” Saint Levant avers.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

Indeed, the great ecologist E. O. Wilson avers that to be effective in some scientific fields, it's actually best not to be too bright.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2022

He avers that she had no share “in the deeper and nobler emotions;” yet almost in the same breath he states that she had “a purpose fixed as the stars to trample down the Reformation.”

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Jordan, Furneaux