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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It does not matter what this individual avows during her hearing.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2020
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
So you’re off guard when you get to the part where he pines for reconciliation with Britain and avows that “I love my King.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017
Nevertheless, the story of the Fall of Man, of which that theology, in its fundamentally true part, is a reasoned expression, is the one thing, Schopenhauer avows, that reconciles him to the Old Testament.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
