Example Sentences

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Every Christian nation has averred that God was on its side in conflict.

From Time Magazine Archive

He speaks of some eccentric person who has averred that a ‘fetish’ is a ‘totem,’ inhabited by ‘an ancestral spirit.’

From Modern Mythology by Lang, Andrew

It that be true Gradasso has averred,   That knight should win the arms he would assay,   Thou hast no title to my white-winged bird,   Save this from me thou first shalt bear away.

From Orlando Furioso by Rose, William Stewart

A recent traveler has averred that he found many persons perusing them in the reading-rooms of Athens.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)