Example Sentences

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And, true to Singler’s suggestion that humans will ascribe a bit of soul to just about anything that moves, I feel passing sympathy even for these tortured components.

From The Verge • May 4, 2022

Clinton, doing her best to maintain a smile, said, “That’s not a view I will ascribe to.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2015

Well, the reality is that we really need to start expanding our view of who we will ascribe opportunities for redemption to.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2015

And the idea that people will ascribe worth to things in an environment that doesn't demand it suggests that Simmel's philosophy of money itself has value.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2011

Let me confess to an old foible—perfectly youthful, and you will ascribe it to youth: once I desired to absorb.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George