swore
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Last week the President also: > Swore in Christian Herter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Swore Kuhn: "I'll never go back to politics again."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Swore he’d rather go naked than wear some other kid’s rags.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
That your petitioner having just reason to fear that his life was in Eminent danger applyed to Justice of the peace, and Swore the peace against sd.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)
Swore that if she could help it he would not get his peerage.
From The Oyster by Peer
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