How to Use confirm in a Sentence

confirm

verb

• The award confirmed her status as one of the great movie actresses.
• The attack confirmed her worst fears about the neighborhood.
• The tests confirmed the doctors' suspicions of cancer.
• The dentist's office called to confirm your appointment for tomorrow.
• We have a reservation for you for tomorrow night. Please call to confirm.
• CBS News has been unable to confirm the source of the video.
  — CBS News, 25 June 2021
• Ervin confirmed the woman's name was the same as on the box Vater got.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity, 30 May 2018
• Details in the video confirm the time and place the footage was taken.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2020
• The footage appears to confirm witness statements that the teen was shot in the back.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
• The deputy was able to confirm that the teen was the victim in the other incident.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022
• The story above isn’t enough to confirm that the two characters will be in the movie.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
• The sources would not confirm how many missiles were launched.
  — Fox News, 10 Aug. 2019
• The bone will now be sent to a lab for testing to confirm its origin.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2021
• The best way to take advantage of it is to confirm it with a trailer.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 28 Sep. 2021
• Photos on the wall confirm that the girl and the bears are a loving family.
  — Tegan Tigani, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2022
• Both rovers are confirmed to have landed on the surface of Ryugu.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2018
• Bill and Jo confirm to the kids that weekends are worse than weekdays.
  — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
• Boyle couldn’t confirm the ages or genders of the deceased.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• Their team had to confirm that their result wasn’t just some weird one-off.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Feb. 2021
• Three high-profile deaths just since the start of this year would seem to confirm this feeling.
  — Neil Gross, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2023
• The Phillies confirmed this account in their statement.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
• Most men who prey on women have had that belief confirmed over the course of years or decades of abuse.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2017
• Without a name, Sheets didn’t have an on-the-record source who could confirm the affair.
  — al, 11 Apr. 2021
• Each of the 11 victims confirmed her identity to the FBI in those images.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2024
• Critics have said the system is easy to game and the benefits are hard to confirm.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Judge Kavanaugh will join him if he is confirmed by the Senate.
  — Sarah Mervosh, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• Before the rental could be confirmed, Djuna wanted Kate’s full name and the full name of her boyfriend.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Times has viewed the email and confirmed that the information in it is accurate.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• To some readers, the report may appear to confirm his math.
  — Daniel Funke, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2020
• Now look, one warm day or week does not confirm climate change.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024