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How to use the word admit in a Sentence? Page #12

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I'm an awful ice skater, I'll admit. And there are some amazing players among our moms and dads at our rink.

Christine Craik

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I have to admit his food packages help keep me going and it’s great to know that he loves me. In some way every time I have my meal I know he is with me.

Zhao Mai

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They’re in an environment where they can easily have access to anything they want so with that attitude and the availability then it’s just really, really difficult for them to just give it up and just admit that they have a problem.

Louis Baxter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There's a military campaign that the U.S. is helping wage, but it has more internal problems than I think people on either side are willing to admit, the reality is what we are trying to do is very difficult, very complicated and many people question how unified we are with the Iraqi government on what we are trying to do.

Jon Alterman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Mental health is the invisible burden of TB, patients do not want to admit to having mental health issues and most doctors are too busy to deal with it. But if we want to end TB, we need to address this aspect of this disease.

Joyce Vaghela

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Now I admit I made mistakes — especially wearing that beret — but the attention and judgment that I received — not the story, but that I personally received — was unprecedented, i was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo and, of course, 'that woman.' I was known by many, but actually known by few. I get it. It was easy to forget 'that woman' was dimensional and had a soul.

Monica Lewinsky

Found on CNN
9 years ago

People make mistakes all the time, but to hide that mistake and not admit to it for over a week is pretty appalling, the victims deserve better than what's happened to them on the Senate floor. They deserve better than a staffer hiding what they knew about the bill. They deserve better than politics being played [with this bill].

Megan Mitchell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Creatively, it is the best it can get, i also think that whether people want to admit it or not, the days of appointed viewing (times) are more behind us than ahead of us.

Kevin Spacey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have to admit that terrorism is now a major threat not only to Egypt or even the immediate region, but it is a threat to the stability and security of the whole world, we can also see that the map of terrorism and extremism is expanding, it is not recessing.

The Egyptian leader

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I have to admit that I did not expect such a verdict.

Dragisa Jokic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I can admit that this was probably one of the worst days ever, and then all of a sudden it turned into one of the best of my life because of my teammates and my hometown crowd.

Robert Bertram

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I’m the first to admit that past trade deals haven’t always lived up to the hype, but that doesn’t mean we should close ourselves off from new opportunities.

President Barack Obama on Saturday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This is a genocidal movement, you kill Christians, you kill Jews, you kill Yazidis but you may in certain circumstances, enslave them, that's what we're up against, and we have an administration that will not even admit there is a religious basis underlying what's going on.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Before November, if you would admit you are sick, there was only one place they would send you.

Greta Wienfeld Ferusic

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Japan officially does not admit it negotiates with terrorists, historically, it has quietly worked behind the scenes to pay terrorists off.

Boston University

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Obviously companies make mistakes. We try to resolve it, we try to fix it, we admit it.

Jamie Dimon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Yes, why did it take you two years to admit that . . . that you did it?

Jodi Arias

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We put our systems to the test each day. Our warning system is one of the best in the world, but I must admit we lack maintenance.

Banda Aceh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, it's a big win for North Korea. They were able to get Sony to shut down the picture. They got the U.S. government to admit that North Korea was the source of this and there's no action plan really, at least publicly no action plan, in response to it, i think from their perspective, in Pyongyang, they're probably popping the champagne corks.

Victor Cha

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If it's your professor or employer, I guess you want to be smart, but not if there is a guy in the room. In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

Eileen Pollack

Found on CNN
9 years ago

September Paris neither paid ransoms does not mean other countries don't, some countries have done it to help September Paris neither paid ransoms. I admit it.

President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It didn't affect me as much right after as it did about four or five years later. It hit me so hard. I was so traumatized by it, I was like: 'Just keep going,' i wasn't even willing to admit that anything had even happened. ... I didn't tell anybody. I didn't even tell myself for the longest time. And then I was like, you know what, all this drinking, and all this nonsense, you have to go to the source, otherwise it just won't go away.

Lady Gaga

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I feel if a person is willing to come forward in that setting and admit they violated the policy when there is absolutely no advantage to do so, then I feel that deserves some consideration, that they are willing to say, 'I have done something wrong and I am willing to take my licks and deal with it,'.

Nicole Eramo

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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