How to Use confess in a Sentence

confess

verb

• I confessed my sins to the priest.
• I have to confess that I was afraid at first.
• He confessed after being questioned for many hours.
• He willingly confessed his crime.
• Inmates are not required to confess their crimes and express regret to be found suitable for parole.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2020
• There is no direct evidence of such a scheme—no accomplice has stepped forward to confess their involvement.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• Joanna, too, found Legoland terrible; Joanna, too, could not confess.
  — Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Hud is also nervous for the shindig, dreading his need to confess something to the brother he's been inseparable from since birth.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• Though White openly confessed to the murders, his real motivations for the killings were obscure.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
• After torturing Afkari for months and forcing him to confess to murdering a security guard, the regime sentenced him to death.
  — Reza Pahlavi, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2020
• On one remarkable session in November during the months-long retrial, Lee took the stand to confess to the killings in front of Yoon.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, Yoonjung Seo and Jake Kwon, CNN, 17 Dec. 2020
• According to police, Whited called Decatur police on Wednesday wishing to confess to the crime.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 19 Nov. 2020
• The two soldiers confess their crimes in a monotone, a few blinks of the eye their only betrayal of emotion: executions, mass burials, village obliterations and rape.
  — Hannah Beech, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
• Writing the piece forced me to confess my fear of death.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The trick was coming up with the nerve to confess our plans to Karl.
  — Ann Patchett, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• The bell rings, and our knees fall and touch the earth, our tongues confess the prescribed words.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
• But we're not finished, first, Wells wants Ivan to confess his sins to the group.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• This man finally found the soul to confess and put an end to this.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• More than a month later, in April, Loudon confessed to his wife.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
• This time Scott and Springsteen both confessed to the slayings.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• Amy’s lousy plan is to get O’Sullivan drunk enough to confess while Rosa listens in the bathroom.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2021
• Smith confessed to letting her car roll down a boat ramp into the lake.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
• Even longtime die-hards confess that its lyrics can be hard to keep straight.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• Torkhan confessed he feels racked by guilt when villagers confront him in the fields.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• Lewis Spivey confessed to killing a pregnant woman and her child in 2002.
  — CBS News, 1 July 2023
• Both told the court that Price had come to them and confessed to murdering his children.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• Somewhere in the middle of the sermon, Ortiz-Vite went to the bathroom, called 911 and confessed.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• FirstEnergy has confessed to the scheme and paid a $230 million fine.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
• At one point, an Iranian held a gun to Rosen’s head and forced him to confess to being a spy.
  — Del Quentin Wilber Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• Smith ultimately confessed to letting her car roll down a boat ramp and into the lake.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024