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Confessed in sentence

177 examples of Confessed in a sentence

In fact, he confessed to 31 other counts covering the same underlying acts, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
In a recent interview, former US Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking on Biden’s behalf, confessed that Cuba’s progress on human rights and economic reform since 2015 has been “disappointing.”
Pence’s chief of staff ultimately confessed that Trump had “suggested” the accommodations.
In his recently published memoir, Barack Obama confessed that if he were a young Egyptian, he would have joined the protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011.
How Foreign Aid Fuels African Media’s Payola ProblemNEW YORK – At a recent press conference, a small group of Liberian journalists made a courageous admission: they confessed they were all “on the take.”
Like Anna, she confessed everything to her husband, and Oblonsky's surprise and embarrassment at the announcement made her smile.
Sometimes in her heart she reproached him for not knowing how to live in town; at other times she confessed that it was really hard for him to arrange his life here satisfactorily.
One thing that he sincerely confessed was that, living so long in Moscow with nothing but talk and food and drink, he was going silly.
I have confessed that I am to blame.
"I came," she confessed at last, "to know if there was more going with you than with us.
Startled by these reproaches in the midst of his report, Dansaert denied, stammered excuses, while his great nose confessed the crime by its sudden redness.
you've not set out yet!"Then he confessed he was going back to the pit.
Monsieur Tuvache answered them with compliments; the other confessed himself nervous; and they remained thus, face to face, their foreheads almost touching, with the members of the jury all round, the municipal council, the notable personages, the National Guard and the crowd.
But the druggist, turning red, confessed that he was too sensitive to assist at such an operation.
And if he confessed that he had not thought of her, there were floods of reproaches that always ended with the eternal question—"Do you love me?""Why, of course I love you," he answered.
He confessed, moreover, that he did not understand the story because of the music, which interfered very much with the words.
And Charles confessed she had gone off a little.
Then she confessed to herself that she felt nothing extraordinary.
Then, whether she confessed or did not confess, presently, immediately, to-morrow, he would know the catastrophe all the same; so she must wait for this horrible scene, and bear the weight of his magnanimity.
Madame de Renal, also pleased with her pretty gown, and with what Julien said to her about it, had proposed a turn in the garden; soon she had confessed that she was not well enough to walk.
In a moment of unrestrained impulse, he even confessed to her all his anxieties.
She was even more so: one of her great wishes, which she had never confessed to Julien, for fear of shocking him, was to see him discard, if only for a day, his gloomy black coat.
He had just confessed to her the strange condition in which he found public opinion at Verrieres.
I confessed all.
Julien confessed to them that he had never in his life been to the Opera.
Obedient as Norbert was, his sister's meaning was so unmistakable that he assumed an air of gravity, little in keeping, it must be confessed, with his genial, smiling features.
I believe that I should find it easier to forgive myself what was clearly a crime; once I had confessed it, I should cease to think about it.
'Is there any reason why I should lie to her?' thought Julien; and he confessed to her all his suspicions.
The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering.
He was obliged to draw upon his memory, which, it must be confessed, was by no means rich in resources of this order; the boy was still a thorough novice, so that his awkwardness was complete and attracted everyone's attention when he rose to leave the drawing-room.
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