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How to use the word confess in a Sentence?

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One portion of the book says,' Babies are taught to be racist or antiracist -- there is no neutrality.' Another portion of the book : They recommend that babies' confess when being racist,'.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you just testified a minute ago that you didn't know of critical race theory… in K through 12, I will confess, I find that statement a little hard to reconcile with the public record, because if you look at the Georgetown Day School's curriculum, it is filled and overflowing with critical race theory… among… the books that are either assigned or recommended.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ms. Morrison, you've urged this committee to look at the whole of your record. I will confess, the whole of your record is deeply disturbing.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to say I stole a 50 cent off your desk, i didn't think he would've noticed 50 cents gone him from his desk. So, throughout the day, he kept just picking about it, throwing out hints that he knows that it's gone. So I had to confess because it was eating me up on the inside. I was like, ‘Pastor, I can't lie. I stole 50 cents from your desk.’ And he tried to act shocked.

Whenever Langston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a language teacher, it’s always interesting to see that some of these terms are usually new colloquialisms, or are rooted or borrowed from another language, as a non-native speaker, I must confess it’s fun to see English speakers stumbling a bit for a change.

Esteban Touma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I must confess it is an off-label administration basically, as usual, we are testing it on our employees.

Denis Logunov

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The only reason he would be confessing is to try to finish out his years a little more comfortably, would be my opinion, i look forward to the day that, hopefully, he'll sit down and just go right down the line and confess to every one of them that he did.

Edward Surratt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I look forward to the day that, hopefully, he'll sit down and just go right down the line and confess to every one of them that he did, he's probably the most prolific African American serial killer in U.S. history, I would say.

Police Carl Frost

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I will confess, I did not anticipate there that we would have a -- literally a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.

Sally Yates

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Over the past number of years, various women have accused me of behavior that has been hurtful to them, while I am not guilty of everything Ive been accused of, I confess to being guilty of this I have treated relationships with women far too casually, in some cases even recklessly. My behavior has been destructive and sinful.

John Crist

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was brutally taken from my work as I knew it, ripped from my family and my friends...It is impossible to express the depth of that deprivation, i was interrogated for up to eight hours a day without any lawyers present...'It will get worse for you if you don't just confess,' the prosecutor told me repeatedly.

Carlos Ghosn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I must confess, I was dumb, during this campaign, I've been doing, in some cases three or four rallies a day, running all over the state -- Iowa, New Hampshire, wherever. And yet I, in the last month of two, just was more fatigued than I usually have been.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

Daniel Webster

added by Normando
4 years ago

I confess that I sinned, but I paid a high price for my faults.

Andrea Velez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Every day when he wakes up in the detention center, he can tell the prosecutor that he challenges the accusations against him, or on the contrary, he can confess and be released, for seven weeks, his decision has been quite clear. ... He will not give up.

Anthony Ghosn

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I'm the first to confess, you know, I was not able to give this message effectively, it's just not the stuff that moved people to vote, and the other side didn't get punished for it.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can not be in that land, as powerful and as moving as it is, without realizing the incredible tension that is constantly in that land between the Palestinians and the Jews, there will never be peace in Jerusalem until the day comes that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ.

Mark Harris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The point of my comment was not to confess a personal trauma, i was speaking about the way emotional and physical boundaries are violated for someone in the public eye, who is seen as an object of desire. Depending on so many factors, it can range from conscious abuse to something very unconscious -- and that is the point I was making, cautiously, in the context of a conversation about fanaticism and cultural norms which support manipulative or abusive behavior. These are the same norms which support predatory men, but not exclusively predatory men. They affect, and infect, us all.

Penn Badgley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This shows that the FARC is fulfilling its promise and that they are willing to confess to the victims, i feel satisfied that this will help heal.

Yolanda Pinto

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I confess I don't fully understand the administration's take on this at this point, it is not a question to me of economics, it is a question of security.

Mac Thornberry

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Sometimes, an affair is a result of an opportunity that comes at a moment of resentment, of instability in the marriage, or at a time when the cheating partner is feeling like they need an ego boost, however, afterwards, the cheater realizes they feel worse because they have violated their own implicit vow to be faithful, and the guilt usually forces them to confess.

Tammy Nelson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I must confess I woke up during the night on more than one occasion, wondering if I was in over my head.

Douglas Kirkland

Found on CNN
6 years ago

They should have held a public trial, i am not angry with the government or the Supreme Leader (of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). I am angry with extremist security forces who were on his case, trying to prove he was a spy and who maybe forced him to confess to things he hadn't done.

Marzieh Amiri

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The face is the mirror of the mind and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -St. Jerome

Saint Jerome

added by anonymous
7 years ago

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