Sample Sentences forespouse (auto-selected)
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When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.† (source)
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It takes the stance of pure historical idealism and espouses a doomsday theory.† (source)
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The fights ceased after two days as the Communicators walked up and down the school espousing calm.† (source)
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McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.† (source)
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has succumbed irrevocably to the corruptions of his class—and now poses a threat to the very ideals he once espoused.† (source)
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Mr. Fish gave no indication that he was even slightly troubled by his hypocrisy on this issue—for surely old Sagamore would roll over in his grave to hear his former master espousing canine restraints of any kind; Sagamore had run free, to the end.† (source)
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It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.† (source)
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How can you of all people espouse an idea like that?† (source)
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"A flock of our fellows are going to drive over by-and-by, and I'll be hanged if I don't make them buy every flower she's got, and camp down before her table afterward," said Laurie, espousing her cause with warmth.† (source)
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Is there, for example, anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, espouses the throne, turns into chouannerie, and, from having been an insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of ignorance!† (source)
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Those who espoused Melanie's side pointed triumphantly to the fact that Melanie was constantly with Scarlett these days.† (source)
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That is why "I determined to ...espouse the holy cause of Southern freedom."† (source)
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The writer was not known for espousing a single conviction of his own.† (source)
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And it was the first time in her life that she had actively espoused a Principle.† (source)
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Reference other critics' opinions as a backhanded way to espouse their own.† (source)
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I give you his very words; and if the marquis chooses to be candid, he will confess that they perfectly agree with what his majesty said to him, when he went six months ago to consult him upon the subject of your espousing his daughter.† (source)
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