How to Use admit in a Sentence

admit

1 of 2 verb

• They refused to admit her to the club.
• I hate to admit it, but he's right.
• The patient was very sick when she was admitted to the hospital.
• He was admitted last night for chest pains.
• The judge decided to admit the evidence.
• You know you're wrong! Admit it!
• This ticket admits one person.
• He admitted them into his office.
• Some of this, Google admits, is still a work in progress.
  — Popular Science, 4 Jan. 2024
• Mother's Day is the perfect time to admit your mom was right all along.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2023
• With such a high, the nature of the sport means Miller is bound to crash back down to Earth, Rojas admitted.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• The Peace Corps did not admit any fault in the filing related to the settlement.
  — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Every kid would line up against the wall and wait to be admitted into a cramped nurse’s office to take the test.
  — Hazlitt, 18 Oct. 2023
• Salma Hayek admits she was spooked about starring in the new season of Black Mirror.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• While waiting in line to be admitted, my close friend died.
  — Jeffrey Okoro, STAT, 24 Nov. 2023
• Gotta admit: Did not see that dynamic duo being a thing.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• An artist needs a lot of character to admit something like that in front of a microphone.
  — Ricardo Durán, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
• Cody admits that Lisa herself isn’t the most likable person.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• His father admitted the abuse and was defrocked, but was never charged and died in 2004.
  — Angus Watson, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• The only losses are 83-44 to Harvard-Westlake in the first game of the season, a game Allard admitted his team was not ready to play.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
• The patient, also an addict, admitted that, for him, reading the book may have done more harm than good.
  — Jamieson Webster, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
• For his own part, Herbert was big enough to admit his shortcomings—and that film is the realm of filmmakers for a reason.
  — Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
• Jack accompanied me to the pier but was only admitted as far as the outside gate.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2023
• Both Galvan and the juvenile admitted the gun was the juvenile's and was in his possession at the time of the shooting.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2024
• By the end of February 2024, Fisker admitted its troubles around handling the balance sheets in a press release.
  — Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
• In an update in April, Evergrande admitted that the plan was still short of support from a key group of creditors.
  — Laura He, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• And take it to your prenatal appointments, in case you are admitted.
  — Alexandra Frost, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023
• Discounts for adults to walk through the museum will also be available, with kids younger than 16 admitted free.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
• It was given to Carrie for her debut album, though Carrie has admitted she has been cheated on in the past.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 16 May 2023
• After spending months aboard, Virts admits that the space station doesn’t have great viewing windows.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024

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2 of 2 noun

• And that's not all: 1 in 5 admit to shedding tears 5 times or more.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 24 June 2019
• The duo admit to sharing a love of rubbing their hands up and down the shaved portions.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• To his credit, Scott kind of admits that the two of them are together.
  — Alexis Nedd, Cosmopolitan, 9 Feb. 2018
• In a separate study, of those who work from home, about 91% admit to not taking a break — not even for lunch.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 6 May 2022
• The driver did admit there may be empty beer cans and some marijuana inside of the SUV.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
• In general, since the start of coronavirus in the United States, three in four admit to using streaming services more.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• Even those staffers who prefer the larger Blackwing admit that the smaller Blackwing is a spectacular car in its own right.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 17 Nov. 2021
• Practicing and playing from January to December, with a two-month break in between, the players and Petrie admit has been a grind.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, 67% admit that failure to invest in a digital future means that there won’t be much of a future to consider.
  — Dmitry Dolgorukov, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Clune told the Wisconsin State Journal that the university’s swift decision to re-admit Cephus may have broken the law.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 7 Sep. 2019
• The Eagles advanced to two previous Super Bowls, but lost both to add what some in the city admit is something of an inferiority complex.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
• The Asian American share of admits has risen in recent years — a telltale sign, the plaintiff argued, that Harvard had adjusted its practices under pressure from the lawsuit.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
• According to the federal government, there have been 368 cases in the past three years, and that is almost certainly an undercount, as even the officials in charge of record keeping admit.
  — Seth Harp, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• However, as the authors of the paper admit, there is very little research on the best measures that managers can take to improve employee well-being, or indeed which are the most cost-effective.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• Dogecoin continued its recent surge Wednesday, hitting new all-time highs and making even the most skeptical admit that the vaulted $1 price goal is looking more and more achievable.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 May 2021
• Almost half of Americans who are married or living with a partner admit to arguing over finances, according to a recent study from TheCashlorette.com.
  — Jean Chatzky, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2017
• Removing preferences for race, legacy and athletics would result in a 50% increase in the number of Asian-American admits, the plaintiffs’ expert said.
  — Nicole Hong and Melissa Korn, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• Dyche did admit however that managers staying in roles for extended periods of time have become aberrations and that one never knows what the future holds.
  — SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• And those, like Brantley, who’d as soon endure a week’s worth of sensitivity training as admit to using one of these hyper-trendy ballistic newcomers.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 21 Dec. 2020
• The agreement requires that ComEd admit wrongdoing, pay a $200 million fine and cooperate with investigators in return for dismissal of the charge later.
  — Michael Tarm, Star Tribune, 5 Aug. 2020
• Some two-thirds of job applicants use deceptive ingratiation, and over half admit to slight image creation, according to research by Dr. Bourdage and Dr. Roulin.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• In 2016, the percentage of UT-Austin enrolled students who are Hispanic, for example, was much higher among automatic admits than for the students accepted outside that state law.
  — Lindsay Ellis, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2018
• Even the biggest cheerleaders for immigration maximalism admit, for example, that low-skill immigrants drive down the wages of previous low-skill immigrants.
  — Fred Bauer, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• The majority of the cases were identified through routine, asymptomatic testing, including during travel, or before a health procedure or admit.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Indeed, a recent survey finds that some 52 percent admit to violating the federal law banning possession of marijuana, to say nothing of the myriad other federal criminal laws.
  — Ilya Somin, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2017
• More selective schools have undergraduate admit rates below 50%.
  — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
• Those orders built upon a longstanding federal court ruling requiring the hospital admit defendants within seven days to avoid unconstitutionally long jail stays.
  — oregonlive.com, 4 June 2019
• And that's not all: 1 in 5 admit to shedding tears 5 times or more.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 24 June 2019
• The duo admit to sharing a love of rubbing their hands up and down the shaved portions.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• To his credit, Scott kind of admits that the two of them are together.
  — Alexis Nedd, Cosmopolitan, 9 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 7 May 2024