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242 example sentences for CONFER, such as:
1. I should like some time to confer with my lawyer.
2. They do everything to confer happiness, I am sure.
3. He conferred with Hill and the others in his office.
4. The university conferred its highest degree on the statesman.
5. The prime minister delivered the keynote address at the conference.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONFER
confer
 v.  have a conference in order to talk something over
Classic Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1  He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
2  You pretend to have bought it for yourself, but you have really done so to confer a benefit on him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
3  If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. ENTHUSIASM
4  'In the meantime, confer with Miss Trotwood, or with any person with any knowledge of life,' said Mr. Spenlow, adjusting his cravat with both hands.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
5  Nevertheless, it is your undoubted prerogative to confer on whom you please this crown, by the delivery of which to the lady of your choice, the election of to-morrow's Queen will be formal and complete.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  We shall then have your willing sanction, good Cedric," said Prince John, "to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  They do everything to confer happiness, I am sure.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
8  For it is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH THE STRENGTH OF A...
9  And these are the kind of improvements which confer reputation and power upon a new prince.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI — AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE ...
10  My Dear Sir: Harvard University desired to confer on you at the approaching Commencement an honorary degree; but it is our custom to confer degrees only on gentlemen who are present.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
11  So Van Helsing has gone to confer with Mrs. Harker and Harker; Quincey and Art are all out following up the clues as to the earth-boxes.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  Under the circumstances we agreed, by a questioning look and answer, with finger on lip, to preserve silence in our suspicions, until we should have been able to confer alone again.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  I know no one in Paris, Morrel, on whom I could confer that honor besides you and your brother Emmanuel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
14  You forget, dear sir, that we confer with an officer, distinguished alike in Europe and America for his deeds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
15  The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, "Animal Hero, First Class," which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
Example Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1  If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, remember it always.
2  I should like some time to confer with my lawyer.
3  She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision.
4  The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to "burst" with boldness and good-will into "the silent sea" of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.
5  The university conferred its highest degree on the statesman.
6  The university conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
7  He conferred with Hill and the others in his office.
8  An aide said Clinton will announce his plan Wednesday after conferring with a White House-led task force on climate change.
9  The prime minister delivered the keynote address at the conference.
10  Political leaders have reached a tentative agreement to hold a preparatory conference next month.
11  Research is also advanced by frequent conference to exchange experience.
12  The RSC was calling a press conference to announce the theatre's closure.
13  More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week.
14  The conference brought together historians working in a variety of fields.
15  The press conference was followed by a walkabout and a factory visit.