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Confess in sentence

483 examples of Confess in a sentence

Now I should confess that as [far as] I'm concerned this would be an abomination if it emitted not one particle of carbon.
OK, good, because I'm not alone and I have something to confess; I don't want you guys to judge me.
But he didn't confess to treason.
Well I'm not a particularly brave person, I have to confess it, but I could not just ignore him.
They're used out in the real world, like in Texas, like this: ["Police Taser Great-Grandmother During Traffic Stop"] I confess, this particular case was one that piqued my interest in this.
Just in case you think it's only going to happen in the United States, it happened in Canada as well: ["Mounties Zap 11-year-old Boy"] And a colleague sent me this one from London: ["Arrested Man, 82, Shot with Taser"] But my personal favorite, I have to confess, does come from the US: "Officers Taser 86-year-old Disabled Woman in her Bed."
I must confess, there's kind of a third motivation as well.
"You won't understand how difficult it is for me to tell you, to confess this.
So for example, in high school, I have to confess I was a mega-nerd.
I'm rather here today to confess that we as a nation took the wrong choice, made the wrong decision.
And she was trying to frame her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, and I have to confess when I heard this, I just reacted with admiration.
It's very shocking and counterintuitive: Why would someone confess and even give gruesome details about a horrifying crime like rape or murder if they hadn't actually done it?
And at this point, from countless research studies, we have a pretty good sense of why people falsely confess, and why some people, like Brendan Dassey, are at greater risk for doing so.
I decided to confess to my friends the story of my failed business.
In fact, I want to confess something.
He was beaten up when he refused to confess that he threw stones, and as a result, had internal injuries that caused his death soon after he was released from prison.
Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day; listen as I confess my love for the president, and, of course, my heartbreak; listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself, a self I don't even recognize.
I come at this question not as a green campaigner, in fact, I confess to be rather hopeless at recycling.
The crucial question is: When we return and ask the children whether or not they have peeked, will the children who peeked confess or lie about their transgression?
Now, I confess to you, this terrified me.
I must confess that I have not been a dispassionate observer covering this story.
Today I want to confess something to you, but first of all I'm going to ask you a couple of questions.
You know, I'm a little bit of a Luddite, I will confess.
I must say, so fervent was my love of the old Brooklyn Dodgers in those days that I had to confess in my first confession two sins that related to baseball.
She wrote to her husband from jail worrying that she would confess under torture, even though she was innocent.
And I'll confess, at first, this seemed to me to take all the fun out of the sport.
Then I ran across this simple verse that said, "At God's footstool to confess, a poor soul knelt, and bowed his head.
The youths are too scared to confess their own transgressions.
And I'm at a stage in life where I'm yearning for my old days, so I want to confess to you that when I was a kid, indeed, I was a conservative.
They confess all details of what they have been willing to do, their sexual contact with her, and eventually they are all brought together in one place, all intent on being with her, and all involved with the final shootout that leaves one dead, one running away (and eventually dying) and one stunned, and the unexpected guy she chooses (but at the same time obvious, cos it's sex-obsessed Douglas).
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