CONFIRM in a Sentence

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218 example sentences for CONFIRM, such as:
1. Please write to confirm your reservation.
2. The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.
3. Please confirm your telephone message by writing to me.
4. These new symptoms tend to confirm my original diagnosis.
5. Brain scans have confirmed that the disease is in remission.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONFIRM
confirm
 v.  support a person for a position
 v.  administer the rite of confirmation to
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  His craving was for the companionship of one whose point of view should justify his own, who should confirm, by deliberate observation, the truth to which his intuitions had leaped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  His understanding of Lily helped to confirm her own belief in her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  I believe that botanists do not confirm Fuchs's story, but insist that the sunflower was native to those plains.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  She got it into her head that Victor was in love with Mrs. Pontellier, and he gave her evasive answers, framed so as to confirm her belief.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
5  It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
6  Heyward was not slow to confirm an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
7  I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
8  You say you are an orphan, without a friend in the world; all the inquiries I have been able to make, confirm the statement.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  You will soon be able to judge of the general credit due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately contradict or confirm.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  Of course he must confirm your engagement, but between ourselves it will be all right.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk
11  It was a simple story which he had to tell, and one which did but confirm our own deductions.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
12  They certainly confirm the very high opinion which I had formed of his abilities.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
13  I eagerly hope that you will confirm this intelligence soon in your own handwriting.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a determination of not creating you a companion in vice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  That little babe hath been gifted with a voice, to second and confirm the counsel which thou hast heard.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  In the film, he plays a spy whose mission is to confirm the verity of a secret military document.
2  Please write to confirm your reservation.
3  The spokesman refused either to confirm or deny the reports.
4  Please confirm your telephone message by writing to me.
5  His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them.
6  Our results confirm the relation between birth weight and lung function measurements reported in other studies.
7  These new symptoms tend to confirm my original diagnosis.
8  After running the roads with him for years I can confirm he is a gentle giant and a down to earth man who lives and breaths trucking and tarmac.
9  Kennedy and 97 other senators voted 98-0 to confirm Scalia, Bork's intellectual soulmate, obviously, the Bork episode was not about jurisprudence.
10  In the aftermath of Saturday's mass poisoning, the authorities imposed a virtual news blackout, refusing even to confirm how many people had died.
11  It has been confirmed that Lewis's next fight will be against Bruno.
12  The rumour is that there is a sequel to the movie in the works, although this has not been confirmed.
13  The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.
14  Brain scans have confirmed that the disease is in remission.
15  There was no evidence of a connection between BSE and the brain diseases recently confirmed in cats.