Sample Sentences forascribe (auto-selected)
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June made a pffff sound with her lips while August shook her head, and it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately it seemed that skin pigment was the sun and everything else in the universe was the orbiting planets. (source)ascribed = attributed or credited to
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They have more or less the same properties as those which Democritus ascribed to atoms. (source)ascribed = attributes to
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I would not ascribe vice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea, and from his presence I must go: THAT I perceived well.† (source)
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If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?† (source)
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This had been ascribed to a fictional "sandtrout" in Fremen folk stories.† (source)
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But as to knowing what he appeared to 'know'—there are other examples of p-p-p-precognition; not every example is necessarily ascribed to God.† (source)
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Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.† (source)
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Why is it every time there's a killing of consequence, we ascribe it to Cain?† (source)
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New York took stray noblemen calmly, and even (except in the Struthers set) with a certain distrustful hauteur; but when they presented such credentials as these they were received with an old-fashioned cordiality that they would have been greatly mistaken in ascribing solely to their standing in Debrett.† (source)
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To Temperance he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution;† (source)
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The interval between the delivery of this message, and the arrival of Mr Squeers, was very short; but, before he came, Ralph had suppressed every sign of emotion, and once more regained the hard, immovable, inflexible manner which was habitual to him, and to which, perhaps, was ascribable no small part of the influence which, over many men of no very strong prejudices on the score of morality, he could exert, almost at will.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat; All therefore whatsoever they bid you doe, that observe and doe;" hee declareth plainly, that hee ascribeth Kingly Power, for that time, not to himselfe, but to them.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She ascribeth" in older English, today we say "She ascribes."
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He knew she would not understand how many truly fine things he ascribed to her when he thought of her as gallant.† (source)
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Certainly those cultures still ascribe to the practice of slaveholding.† (source)
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She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.† (source)
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You rear like a frightened colt, because I use a word to which your Christianity ascribes a deprecatory meaning.† (source)
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