Sentence Examples
I must confess, however, I'm finding the terror cycle an absurdly entertaining piece of global sport. |
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While I can often see these allusions in classical music now, at the time I must confess to being completely nonplussed. |
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Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it. |
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I confess to the herder that I don't really know what a houbara looks like, having only encountered the kori bustard of the savannah. |
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I have to confess that I am not very knowledgeable about modern rock music. |
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He'd take her into his arms, confess that he was madly in love with her and kiss her passionately. |
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I confess I reverted to form and consumed nearly a ream of paper printing out the contents of the Websites I visited. |
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I spent two weeks a few years ago proofreading it for him and confess it was hard work. |
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I must confess that I have always found the concept of symbolic realism to be somewhat disconcerting. |
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After attaining the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound to confess serious sins at least once a year. |
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I am going to confess to being a little bit of a keener, I did mine yesterday and did not go drinking. |
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He did after all confess, without a whisper of remorse, to carrying out the bombing. |
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I admit that I proceeded with a heavy heart to read this weighty tome, but confess that I found each chapter pleasantly surprising. |
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I feel that I should confess to wazzing in a coffee cup and throwing the contents out of the window. |
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Juliet tells Nurse to tell her mother that she is going to Friar Laurence's cell to confess her sins and be absolved. |
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I am blessed with a son who is a pleasure to know and who has not exposed me to the teenage horrors of which I was warned and who I can weepily confess to loving deeply. |
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I confess to being surprised at the reaction to yesterday's article on the boring, bourgeois future of gay marriage. |
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I confess a particular weakness for his chocolate biscuits and pork pate with onion marmalade. |
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Williams never wavered from that claim of innocence and said he refused to confess to crimes he did not commit, even if doing so would save his life. |
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I confess to have become so jaded as to find the practice rather tedious. |
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I have to confess, I had no idea that Whitney had a rumored gay lover before reading about your role in this movie. |
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And, again, I now confess, I had an occasional Bourbon and stoogie on the cuff. |
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I will now confess that I spent some time in the lobby of the Willard Hotel myself. |
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During their incarceration, they were humiliated and forced to confess on national television. |
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I confess I only made it to da Emma for a late night cappucino, just long enough for a visit with the robust mama in the kitchen. |
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Even though most of me was protesting witlessly against my decision, I pushed myself past their disapproval and uttered the secret that I finally found the courage to confess. |
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Though, when they dis them, they also often confess to having loved them as kids. |
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Other dead souls returned to urge the living to confess their sins before their own deaths. |
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Well, to be frank, Madame, when Mademoiselle Leocadia Gardi entered my cafe the first time, I must confess... I just went all floofy! |
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I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. |
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Before she can confess to him, the inspector receives a telephone call and asks Frank to deal with Alice. |
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Eventually they confess their feelings for one another and consummate their love. |
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And in this Trinity confess that there is one Deity, one power, one essence. |
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The herald read the accusation out loud and gave the defendant one last chance to confess. |
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I must confess that I myself had been inclined towards Monotheism till this time. |
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At that time they are to individually examine themselves, and confess any sins they may have between one and another. |
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They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. |
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Legal eagle Jimmy Wyler has the sort of steely stare that makes you want to confess to crimes you didn't commit. |
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It's a straightforward list of yoyo clubs, yo-yo museums, official confess rules, and upcoming yo-yo events. |
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If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it. |
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I will confess, with some shame, that I am a saunders neophyte. |
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We ascribe or impute motives to others and avow them or confess to them in ourselves. |
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This ultimately forced Henry to order Thomas to confess his obedience to Anselm's successor. |
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Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven. |
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I confess I'm frequently repelled by the razzamatazz that surrounds major fundraising. |
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Yet on a recent visit to the Republic of Malta I confess that, at first glance, I found it a bit. |
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I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned. |
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Perhaps it is only fair to come clean at the start and confess that I found J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales a disappointment. |
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. |
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I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure. |
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The Houston vet returns to the game to confess that he suffers from gametophobia, the fear of marriage. |
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With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance. |
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Lutherans confess that Scripture is united with the power of the Holy Spirit and with it, not only demands, but also creates the acceptance of its teaching. |
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I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature. |
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What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity, I had a fancy to make it appear that I did through a sort of generous condescension. |
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Speaking as an alleged eyewitness, Marcellinus recounts how Theodorus and several others were made to confess their deceit through the use of torture, and cruelly punished. |
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I confess that the sight of my minute man ahead, getting closer and closer, gives me a little more drive even when I think I am going as fast as I can. |
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Only capital officials of grade 4 and above were exempt from the scrutiny of recorded evaluation, although they were expected to confess any of their faults. |
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Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy? |
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Examples from Classical Literature
I confess that your article on dearness and cheapness has led me to reflect. |
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But I must confess to you it has made it very difficult for me to go on with Alessandra. |
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An alfresco meal, a strange kitchen like this, made me very anxious, I must confess. |
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It is not easy for an Anglo-Saxon to confess the realities of affection in vital intimacies. |
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The latter, I must confess, did not seem to us so nice as the dark-colored meat of the anhinga. |
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I confess that, when I beheld you in the ante room, I blushed for my past forgetfulness. |
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I confess that I have never been able to understand the position of the atheist. |
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Still I confess that liquor did all the mischief, as I had drunk just enough to make me careless. |
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I will confess that although probabilities are for it, appearances are against it. |
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I confess, indeed, that to compare myself unto him for aught I have yet said, were both impudency and arrogancy. |
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I may confess that it was with some difficulty I rescued this coat from the ashman, to whom your mother had given it. |
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He has forbidden them to go out as they ought to the visitas, and to confess, preach, and catechize. |
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You talk as wisely as Cato, and I am obliged to confess that you are right in all you say. |
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We confess there are points liable to cavil in a walk home by night in February. |
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I confess I felt a touch of nausea, but nothing compared with the priest, whose teeth began to chitter in an ague of horror. |
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I still have to confess that I do not see what there is to fight about in the matter of chutney. |
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I must confess that I gave your husband and his colleagues a terrible fright the other night. |
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But I confess they seem to stick in the stomach as the pitch of the cones sticks on the hands. |
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How is it possible for me to confess, when I tell you I know nothing about her? |
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Out of your bed and down on your knees to your own blessed father, and confess your sins. |
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To expect to convict him after all these years was ridiculous, and it was not likely that he would confess. |
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Horatio cooly said, he could not but confess he had been to blame, and must therefore allow the justice of her proceeding. |
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He would have to go home to Anna, and confess that he was beaten by default. |
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Guilty of this homicide, and this regicide, and this deicide, confess your guilt to-day. |
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We confess ourselves unable to follow this transfer of the superstition of sacrosanctity from a king to a chamber. |
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I saw Lady Carwitchet, who laughed at me, and defied me to make her confess or disgorge. |
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It is perhaps humiliating to confess that his dislodgement, when it came, was not at our hands. |
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Would it not be like a disparagement of Nelly if he were to confess that he had never loved her? |
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He would not confess that lands, and houses, and seignorial functions were no longer of value in his eyes. |
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This it is the highest wisdom of men to acquiescently confess. |
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Of these Saint Anian, we must confess, is somewhat of a deceiver. |
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That was true, sensible and prudent, clear-sighted, I must confess. |
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I must confess that I slunk out of the railway station shunning its many lights as if, invariably, failure made an outcast of a man. |
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She may wish to confess to me in default of the worthy father. |
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Neither is it allowable in a Churchman when armed to confess it. |
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And I must confess that I had treated the idea very cavalierly and academically as a dream and nothing more. |
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Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made? |
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This, I confess, has been something of a surprise to me, and I have not yet made up my mind as to the fundamental cause of the anomaly. |
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What he saw in the waistcoat to chronicle I confess I have failed to see. |
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I confess, Eudora, it pained me to see you listen to his idle flattery. |
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I feel and confess my own deficiencies as an individual member. |
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There are blemishes, I confess, which deform in some degree the picture. |
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I have, I confess, but indifferent skill in these sedentary arts. |
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To confess the strange truth, he never told me you were musical. |
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I confess I have much to deplore, and much for which to be thankful. |
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I must confess the sight of all this armament, all this preparation, greatly excited me. |
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With this idea, I confess, Ld Cornwallis naturally occurs to me. |
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For my own part I freely confess that, in my bachelorship, I was precisely such an over-curious simpleton as I now advise the reader not to be. |
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I am bound to confess I am biassed in favour of the friendly mirror. |
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I must confess, though, that I am a bibliophile 82 with War books. |
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An they do not confess, they may be set in the bilboes and whipped. |
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There are certain dishes, I confess, which give me the blues. |
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With these grey hairs of mine 'tis not worth while disputing, 'specially with a superior, who'll ne'er confess. |
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I doubted your brotherliness, I must confess, my dear Marius. |
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Helen Plantagenet is deeply grieved to have to confess that I took the first place in algebra yesterday unfairly. |
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As I sometimes confess, I am merely one of the unburied dead. |
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Civil servants are believed to be hurriedly redrafting legislation that would have allowed paramilitaries to confess in secret and walk free. |
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He tried to resume his former easy, indifferent air, but it was an affectation now, for the rousing had been more effacious than he would confess. |
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Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me. |
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Be calm and frank, and confess at once all that weighs on your heart. |
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