Asserts
[ə'sə:ts]
Examples
- And Franklin Blake's innocence, as you have just seen, unanswerably asserts itself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn re-asserts it by another inclination of his head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- De Candolle asserts that it is only in the Euphrates-Tigris district that wheat has ever been found growing wild. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It asserts the liberty of conscience, in behalf of the Anabaptists, the Quakers, and other sectarians that had been persecuted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He asserts that the function of the forked twig in the hands of the water-finder may be to act as an indicator of some material or other mental disturbance within him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At least there is no opposition to YOU, Volumnia asserts with confidence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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