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487 examples of Swear in a sentence

Hmmmmmm, well this grizzly bear must be a kick boxing one because i swear he puts up his guard ready to take on the mighty Hercules!
I swear she was going to kill her in the heating machine but she didn't.
Testifying in a court of law or before a committee of the US Congress, witnesses “solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Students at many universities swear to uphold an honor code.
Proponents, such as those who studied the rise of the East Asian economies, swear by it.
Poland is experiencing a constitutional crisis that began when PiS-backed Polish President Andrzej Duda refused to swear in three Constitutional Tribunal judges chosen by the previous parliament.
One of India’s finest actors, Irfan Khan, suddenly re-baptized himself Irrfan, a change that many swear prefigured the transformation of his career.
Many swear it works for them; others take the agnostic view that one has nothing to lose by indulging such beliefs, except the price of the ring – a sort of Hindu version of Pascal’s famous wager.
Developing Economies’ Long-Term Financing ShortfallWASHINGTON, DC – Since the global financial crisis, “banking” has practically become a swear word.
Musharraf dissolved the Supreme Court and the four High Courts, put Chaudhry and his entire family under house arrest, sealed the Supreme Court premises under army guard, and proceeded to arrest and detain all judges who refused to swear allegiance to the Provisional Constitutional Order upholding the state of emergency.
So there are substantial doubts as to whether the aging commanders of North Korea’s army, many of whom fought in the Korean War six decades ago, can swear loyalty to a callow, paper general.
LONDON – At long last, Germany is ready to swear in a new government.
'I am ready to swear I can't find in my soul a trace of regret for my freedom,' said Levin, with a smile.
'Oh, you know!''No, I swear I have not the slightest idea!' said Katavasov, laughing loudly.
This morning a drop beating upon his eye made him swear.
"But no, I swear," she cried.
Only you must swear that you'll make your mother decide to let us marry.
He made the child swear not to sleep out, as had sometimes happened when he forgot himself in his hay, and taking a candle-end, he went away first, leaving him to pursue quietly his domestic affairs.
There, I swear to be kind.
On impact, it gave off a metallic sonority, and as incredible as this sounds, it seemed, I swear, to be made of riveted plates.
So swear to me that you'll accept our situation without throwing a tantrum over it."
And I too could feel the difference created by the water's powerful density--despite my heavy clothing, copper headpiece, and metal soles, I climbed the most impossibly steep gradients with all the nimbleness, I swear it, of a chamois or a Pyrenees mountain goat!
There, all about us, I swear that the shores and ice floes were crowded with marine mammals as far as the eye could see, and I involuntarily looked around for old Proteus, that mythological shepherd who guarded King Neptune's immense flocks.
But I'll swear it's a warship, because there's a long pennant streaming from the peak of its mainmast."
Heloise made him swear, his hand on the prayer-book, that he would go there no more after much sobbing and many kisses, in a great outburst of love.
"Lor!" said the peasant, "one would swear it was a little fountain flowing.
Now, couldn't you swear she was going to get up in a minute?"
The violence of Julien's effort to control himself made him turn quite pale again; he said, with an air of constraint:'Never, Ma'am, will I beat your children; I swear it before God.'
At the abbey of Bray-le-Haut, for instance; but swear to me that during my absence you will reveal nothing to your husband.
The Tempest_As they left the drawing-room about midnight, Julien found time to say to his mistress: 'Do not let us meet tonight, your husband has suspicions; I would swear that that long letter he was reading with such displeasure is an anonymous one.'
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