Sample Sentences for
confer
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confer as in:  confer with her coach

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The doctors conferred and then recommended a plan of action.
conferred = met to talk something over
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    We conferred about a plan of action.
    conferred = talked
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    Frederick Douglas was greatly respected and was conferred with by both President Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson.
    conferred = met with for discussion
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    Again the noise, this time close to the door, and it occurred to me that it was probably the boys coming to confer with me.  (source)
    confer = talk about something
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    Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already, and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding.  (source)
    conferred = talked
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    One of the workers raises his hand, and an Official comes down from his perch to confer with the worker.  (source)
    confer = talk
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    "Often, he comes to school without breakfast," and the crowd of women was conferring again.  (source)
    conferring = discussing the issue
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    The FOREMAN confers briefly with him.  (source)
    confers = has a conference in order to talk something over
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    Mr. Muckenfuss conferred with Miss Bivens, and she told me that as long as I kept clean, she'd fight for me.  (source)
    conferred = talked
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    Emissaries were already dropping in to confer with him.  (source)
    confer = talk
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    The newly elected chairman of the board of Westing Paper Products Corporation, Julian R. Eastman, announced from London where he is conferring with European management that earnings from all divisions are expected to double in the next quarter.  (source)
    conferring = meeting for discussion
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    The one that confers the protection that Jace lost when he came back from the dead, the one that allowed Lilith to get to him?†  (source)
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    They had flown from a secret airfield in Canada to a rendezvous somewhere in Siberia, and had conferred with members of the Eurasian General Staff, to whom they had betrayed important military secrets.  (source)
    conferred = talked
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    On day six, when a plane flew by, the remaining men had to confer to be sure that it was real.  (source)
    confer = discuss the issue
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confer as in:  confer an honorary degree

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Harvard conferred an honorary degree upon Booker T. Washington.
conferred = gave
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    The university conferred an honorary degree on its most famous former student, who never graduated.
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    Congressional Space Medals of Honor were conferred posthumously to all fourteen crew members lost in the Space Shuttle disasters.
    conferred = given
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    But with the greatest pleasure, I come to confer upon her a position as our second pianist.  (source)
    confer = bestow or give
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    It made any Jew at the Battle School dream of being Strategos, and conferred prestige on him from the start.  (source)
    conferred = bestowed or gave
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    If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction.  (source)
    confer = give
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    It is Harvard which, first among New England colleges, confers an honorary degree upon a black man.  (source)
    confers = gives (an honor)
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    In one respect it was better, as it gave him the means of conferring a kindness where he wished to oblige.  (source)
    conferring = giving
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    He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.  (source)
    conferred = given
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    ...you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.  (source)
    confer = bestow or give
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    Upon seeing a formally set table, one knows instinctively that the seat at the head is more desirable than those along the sides—because it inevitably confers upon its occupant an appearance of power, importance, and legitimacy.  (source)
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    ...and she would not allow herself to shew half the displeasure she felt, because he had been conferring an obligation, which no want of delicacy on his part could make a trifle to her.  (source)
    conferring = giving
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    …while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks.  (source)
    conferred = given
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    The growth is so thick and matted that even the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it.  (source)
    confer = bestow or give
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