Sample Sentences for
assent
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    She takes my silence as assent.  (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
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    At this, Paul's mother muttered reluctant assent.  (source)
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    Their murmurs of assent and disapproval gave her a sense of order and rightness.  (source)
    assent = agreement
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    There was a murmur of assent.  (source)
    assent = agreement
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    Roger Chillingworth readily assented, and went on with his medical supervision of the minister; doing his best for him, in all good faith, but always quitting the patient's apartment, at the close of the professional interview, with a mysterious and puzzled smile upon his lips.  (source)
    assented = consented or agreed
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    Silence, a murmur of assenting voices.†  (source)
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    Their assents came in, then presently the rest of them withdrew, leaving Rosalind and me to discuss how I could best tackle Petra.†  (source)
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    She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace.†  (source)
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    She nodded her assent.  (source)
    assent = consent or agreement
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    When they finally assented, I was grateful.†  (source)
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    No political relationship will continue to exist between the assenting and dissenting States.†  (source)
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    Someone assents with a shout, and someone else joins in.†  (source)
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    Miss Anne rose assentingly, and the good brother took her away, while Joshua's preliminary scrapings burst into the "White Cockade," from which he intended to pass to a variety of tunes, by a series of transitions which his good ear really taught him to execute with some skill.†  (source)
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