How to Use avowed in a Sentence

avowed

adjective

• But America’s avowed and only aim is to get Mr Kim to give up his nukes.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• The sound of the Audio-Technica R70x came as a shock even to me, an avowed audiophile.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• In the case of one couple Dr. Shapiro met, the husband was a die-hard Republican and the wife an avowed Democrat.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2019
• They were replaced by left-leaning Democrats, most of them avowed enemies of his.
  — Michael Greenberg, The New York Review of Books, 16 Apr. 2020
• Chatterjee, a Kentucky native and an avowed fan of coal, has a chance to give the fuel a boost against cheaper sources of power.
  — Catherine Traywick, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Signs suggest that President Trump aims to move the court so far to the right that half the nation will inevitably deem it an avowed enemy.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
• There are also two bars with a menu curated by avowed gamer and celebrity chef José Andrés.
  — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 20 June 2018
• Two men were killed in an attack by an avowed white supremacist on a commuter train.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2017
• The reference would make sense for Cyrus, an avowed Dylan disciple.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2017
• Of the six men likely to replace him, four are avowed opponents of Palestinian statehood.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
• Kate is, after all, an avowed fan of boots and has paired similar looks for informal events in the past (see some of Kate's best boot pairing moments here).
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 11 June 2019
• The issue wasn’t that every avowed nationalist who claimed membership in the alt-right was a Nazi or Klansman.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 16 Aug. 2017
• The issue wasn't that every avowed nationalist who claimed membership in the alt-right was a Nazi or Klansman.
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• Like, say, the growing presence of self-avowed Nazis who openly use the service as a vector to intimidate and harass.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2018
• This is the avowed purpose of the secret society to which every adult French Canadian belongs.
  — David Vernette, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
• By discouraging people from claiming the credit, the audits clash with an avowed goal of the IRS: to encourage people to claim it.
  — Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 30 May 2019
• Baldwin is an avowed lefty, but weirdly enough, the defenders of humanity here are all right-wingers.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 7 June 2018
• The self-avowed democratic socialist leads in the polls, preformed well in Iowa and New Hampshire and has said billionaires should not exist.
  — Madeleine Carlisle, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
• Transitions are never easy, especially for an avowed member of the church of clog.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2018
• The jury's verdict came after a trial in which the avowed white supremacist did not show any remorse or attempt to fight for his life.
  — Denise Lavoie, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
• But these clients were avowed traditionalists—so what gives?
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 15 Feb. 2020
• But how does the current White House chief occupant handle the disconnect between his avowed distaste for losers and his love of their support?
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Aug. 2017
• Rohrer, an Austrian, is the granddaughter of an avowed Nazi officer.
  — Curt Schleier, sun-sentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• But tensions between the two avowed enemies are rising.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2018
• This is someone who is an avowed socialist, a communist.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2018
• Adcock, an avowed rosé lover for years, had no trouble gushing over the cornucopia of pink wines making their way into the marketplace.
  — Dave Eckert, kansascity, 12 June 2018
• In Abbey’s later years, the avowed environmentalist zoomed the desert in a gas-guzzling red Cadillac and saw little wrong with this pleasure.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• Shooter Dylann Roof, an avowed white nationalist, had posed for photos with the battle flag.
  — chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• The energy in the Democratic Party is self-avowed (ph) socialist.
  — Fox News, 1 July 2018
• America is edging towards trade conflict not just with an avowed rival but with its closest friends.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024