How to Use assertion in a Sentence

assertion

noun

• Seneca’s assertion is that an attachment to riches will bring misery, and the research couldn’t support him more clearly.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
• Don’t abandon your principles based on your child’s assertion of other families’ norms.
  — Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
• The assertion that justice is core to adaptation might not seem like the purview of science, but its relation to the rate of change warrants exploration.
  — John Sabo, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Thomas Jefferson’s assertion that governments derive their powers from the consent of the governed was slow to catch on.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• In an assertion of the rubber-versus-glue principle, Trump went on to claim that Biden is the real enemy of the state.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• Rossello’s assertion that he was raped twice by Jose Menendez is part of the Menendez brothers’ petition.
  — Jaimie Ding, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
• My host’s assertion about the staff proved to be correct.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 30 Jan. 2023
• The source for their assertion was a study conducted by the Army Corps.
  — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• That assertion appears to be the main thrust of his defense.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2021
• The low-key Sanders bristles a little at the assertion.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2023
• Recent events have put that blunt assertion to the test.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
• Matt Nagy’s assertion that his team is ‘just OK right now’ is _____.
  — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The City’s assertions are baseless,’’ the union’s complaint says.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2020
• Democrats pushed back on the assertion that Hurd is a foil to Trump, however.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 22 June 2023
• Madonna’s assertion drew cheers from the crowd in Vegas, but the tweet did not go over quite as well.
  — Dan Sweeney, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• But that’s just with regard to the assertion that AI sentience is here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• When pressed for the source of an assertion, AI sometimes cops to making things up.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Aug. 2023
• Here’s a look at the context around some of the president’s assertions.
  — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• That's the assertion being made in courtrooms across the country, at least.
  — Nico Lang, Marie Claire, 7 June 2017
• Shaw disputes the police's assertion that Stallings tried to pull the suspect away.
  — Konstantin Toropin and Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• This assertion contrasts sharply with our Founders’ views of free speech.
  — WSJ, 2 Nov. 2020
• To those who’ve known Abel the longest, this sort of brash assertion hardly comes as a surprise.
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2021
• Mr Guo’s assertions do not seem to have damaged Mr Wang.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• As for crowd size at Trump's events, the president's assertion isn't even close.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2020
• We’re told that there’s no truth to the assertion, and that no casting attachments have been made.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 June 2024
• Pulling out of Paris was part of Trump’s campaign rhetoric, along with his assertions that climate change was a hoax.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• If that assertion was true, this essay would be very short.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• Coming from her, this assertion is a bit rich—and Schreck knows it, laughing at her own words.
  — David Kamp, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2020
• The state’s own data, in part, counters Miller’s assertions of progress.
  — Emily Hopkins, ProPublica, 3 Apr. 2023
• De Armas is not alone in her assertion that the role should continue to be male.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 July 2022

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024