How to Use confer in a Sentence

confer

verb

• The lawyer and judge conferred about the ruling.
• Calls confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell shares.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• The door reopens and the four men confer briefly before the clip ends.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The group conferred with a lawyer, who said the 1960 ad was in the public domain.
  — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Call options confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Of course, making the Open doesn’t confer a great shot at winning the Open.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• The cameras watch her confer with her team after the match.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• The Kennedy Center — which will host and confer the prize March 24 — tried helping.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• But, in spite of any comforts conferred by the tree, the birds appeared to have left the area sometime around Sept. 1.
  — Brendan Rascius, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
• After all the dances are finished, the judges meet to tally their scores and confer.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2017
• Then degrees were conferred, the Stanford Hymn was sung, and heads bowed in prayer.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 18 June 2017
• Each is trained and paid to confer with teachers for 30 minutes a week.
  — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• This season the shiny coat will confer an up-to-the-minute aura on its wearer.
  — Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Wade said some of the preparation remains the same, such as conferring with the starters.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Weinstein showed no emotion as the lawyers on both sides and the judge conferred.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
• Call options give the right but not the obligation to buy shares, while puts confer the right to sell.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• While cute, these confer no survival advantage to the species as a whole and are not memes.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• The script was tweaked after conferring with the film’s subjects.
  — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 23 Aug. 2023
• The attorney for James Spears asked for a recess to confer with her client.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
• Jenkins conferred with Huang, who said the smaller, the better.
  — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2020
• Conferring berry status on mul and goose and cran (as well as the banana); not straw.
  — Leah Eskin, idahostatesman, 18 July 2017
• News is a report of facts, intended to confer a record of truth.
  — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• The group conferred for a few moments before giving Ryu space to stretch.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• Throughout the trial, Ms. Maxwell would sit and confer with her team of lawyers.
  — James Fanelli, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2021
• Bertha confers her blessing from a portrait that hangs on the wall where orders are picked up.
  — Chase Quinn, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• Always refers to you by your full name in an effort to confer celebrity.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 25 May 2021
• The two sides took a break so Lancaster could confer with Gableman, who wasn’t in the office.
  — Patrick Marley, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022
• The other, charging him with felonies related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been delayed by a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity for official acts by a president.
  — Dan Merica and Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
• The Supreme Court interpreted these rules as conferring on it the right to judicial review of future legislation, although lawmakers themselves were divided on the matter.
  — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024