avow
verb (used with object)
avows
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present tense formof avow (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The ability to turn back whether or not you’ve reached your destination “takes preparation over many passing years,” avows Guterson.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019
It avows an anti-elitist attentiveness to the industrially humdrum.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019
In the most poignant number from his new album, the father-and-son-referencing “Just Call Me, Hank,” Williams avows, “I don’t care about the Hall of Fame.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 24, 2016
In the Autobiography, Franklin avows that he grew his fledgling printing house by observing Poor Richard’s advice—and by making a show of it.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014
In one breath he avows his affection for the lady whose image is constantly before him, and in the next furnishes her reasons why she ought not to marry him!
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
