How to Use ascribe in a Sentence

ascribe

verb

• Such a view ascribes thought that’s hard to find behind all the hatred.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Some of this is due to our need to ascribe names to new and different creatures.
  — Bob Humphrey, Outdoor Life, 9 Mar. 2021
• Too many of us ascribe the worst motives to anyone who does not agree with 100% of our beliefs.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Kathy said, ascribing his mood to not being able to play video games.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2017
• Those castoff receivers—they, too, want to rethink labels, like the ones ascribed to this city for so long.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• So is Bruce the latest celebrity to ascribe to the yeehaw agenda?
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2019
• The stumbles of the Texans aren't hard to track, or ascribe reasons behind.
  — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
• Could the phenomenon be ascribed to changes in the moon’s orbit?
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 June 2018
• People too easily ascribe a mind like their own to all sorts of things, from pets to pet rocks.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 June 2022
• People ascribed the value of their effort to the trinket.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2018
• When so much meaning is ascribed to a piece of clothing, the prospect of looking for a wedding dress can seem daunting.
  — Helin Jung, Cosmopolitan, 9 Jan. 2018
• Along the way to the back half of the conference finals, Paul has exorcised the demons that were arguably largely ascribed to him.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 24 May 2018
• That’s a lot of weight to ascribe to a narrow victory over a winless Atlanta team in Week Two.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
• Again, this is ascribed to the quality of data being used.
  — Adrian Swinscoe, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The shorter longevity ascribed to NFL running backs is probably over-used as the reason not to take them high in the draft.
  — Bud Shaw, cleveland.com, 1 May 2018
• Can meaning be ascribed to the random meetings of kindred souls?
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• Fast forward about 400 years, and people had started to ascribe meaning to the tarot card symbols.
  — Norcal Marketing, Chron, 28 Jan. 2021
• As to what Downey is ascribing to his native land, Murphy can do nothing but laugh.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Played by David Berry, Grey will apparently live up to the fair, handsome features ascribed to him in the series.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2017
• American newspapers of the 1930s ascribed the rule to Maurice Chevalier, or, more vaguely, to the French.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 2 May 2024
• What doesn’t help is to assume the worst, to ascribe motives to him without giving him room to say otherwise.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2017
• Some might ascribe other meanings, but the words also offer a burning anthem for a day at the track.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2024
• But the outlook is far from being as gloomy as the market is ascribing to these companies.
  — Thomas Heath, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• But that should not mislead us into thinking that most students simply ascribe to the mob’s views.
  — Sahil Handa, National Review, 4 July 2019
• The average consumer might ascribe the declining price to a variant of Moore’s law.
  — Ashwin Rodrigues, Fortune, 21 July 2019
• Hezbollah ascribes to the Shia branch like Iran, so has longer-running ties to the Islamic Republic.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2023
• Investors need to be mindful of hindsight bias — the tendency to ascribe signs of trouble after the fact.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• They are embedded in the day-to-day work, ascribe to the company culture and understand the status quo.
  — Erik Huberman, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Lawyers from both sides are loath to ascribe partisan motives to sitting judges.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
• But ascribing these traits to women undercuts their autonomy and attempts to exonerate them from their own choices.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024