How to Use assent in a Sentence

assent

1 of 2 verb
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  • The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented.
  • Some British leaders express hope that Europe will assent to a deal that allows finance to carry on, even as Britain leaves the single market.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • The country’s attorney general — a Bolsonaro ally — needs to assent to a trial of the president in court.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 25 Mar. 2019
  • In any case, Morena and its allies do not yet control the legislatures of most of the 32 states; to change the constitution, a majority must assent.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Pyongyang assented, and preparations were made to bring Warmbier home.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Miraculously, though, Pop assented, and Aldridge has not only been better this season—with Kawhi out, there was a vacuum to fill—but looked far more comfortable.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Women in former eras were downtrodden and frequently assented to it.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • But other European voters also have assented to the Lisbon Treaty, which contemplates exits such as the one Britain is attempting.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • As part of the agreement, Hickenlooper also assented to the creation of a task force to make recommendations on future fracking policies.
    — Mark K. Matthews, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • In its view, pushing a button manifests assent only if the user is explicitly advised that doing so manifests consent to the terms.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022
  • On April 27, the bear to Bulgaria’s northeast dealt the Balkan country of 7 million people a harsh blow, cutting the natural gas that supplies roughly half of its heating fuel for refusing to assent to the Kremlin’s new demand for payment in rubles.
    — Jordan McGillis, National Review, 2 May 2022
  • Germany and other northern European deficit hawks also assented to the temporary lifting of limits on spending in the European Union.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Children, who will have to assent to giving blood or saliva for genetic testing, need someone to explain what is happening to them and why their samples are required, Wolf adds—and older children should have the right to agree or reject testing.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 26 June 2018
  • While the sale and ownership of machine guns have been strictly controlled since the 1930s and such weapons are very rare among civilians, the company argued their device would benefit handicapped gun enthusiasts, and the ATF assented.
    — Time, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The way Americans assent to such treatments fits more broadly into a culture of arduous self-improvement regimens.
    — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • Five of the seven assenting justices carry baggage that strains their credibility.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir’s state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago.
    — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
  • In an innovative hybrid arrangement, Cambodian and international jurists were paired at every stage, and a majority had to assent for a case to go forward.
    — Sopheng Cheang, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Trump resisted choosing the former Indiana governor and congressman as his running mate, finally assenting to his selection at the behest of then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The authorities assented, and Epstein apparently killed himself, a punctuation mark on the futility and incompetence of a government that had ample opportunity to bring him to justice and failed every single time.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Wharton’s publisher, Charles Scribner, assented enthusiastically to the idea, pledging to comp all advertising and commission fees.
    — Anne Trubek, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • Wharton’s publisher, Charles Scribner, assented enthusiastically to the idea, pledging to comp all advertising and commission fees.
    — Anne Trubek, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
  • Christopher, on his end, is supposed to have assented to and even welcomed this public confirmation of his own negligibility, not that foreign diplomats needed any.
    — Tom Carson, Village Voice, 19 July 1994
  • Fearing that without a new batch of social measures the country would slip away from him, Roosevelt assented—sometimes rather grudgingly—to proposals that in sum make up the semi-welfare state under which we have lived this past half century.
    — Irving Howe, New York Times Book Review, 28 Sept.1986
  • The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented.
  • Some British leaders express hope that Europe will assent to a deal that allows finance to carry on, even as Britain leaves the single market.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • The country’s attorney general — a Bolsonaro ally — needs to assent to a trial of the president in court.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 25 Mar. 2019
  • In any case, Morena and its allies do not yet control the legislatures of most of the 32 states; to change the constitution, a majority must assent.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
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assent

2 of 2 noun
  • But the nod felt to Eli more like dismissal than assent.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The world seemed to offer assent to our view of ourselves.
    — Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • And not just consumed, but gave the assent to the entire group to consume her.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • There are murmurs of assent and dissent from the crowd.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022
  • My gumshoes grunted their assent and began to build the file.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The bill was first read in the House of Commons in April and received royal assent on June 22.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 July 2023
  • Chimaev’s assent in the UFC came largely out of nowhere.
    — Mike Bohn, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The party cannot win lasting assent to its rule by force alone.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • For the 2018 season, with the tepid assent of the players’ union, M.L.B. issued a set of new rules designed to do just that.
    — Susan Jacoby, Time, 24 May 2018
  • Finally Nevaeh nods, the barest hint of assent, and a counselor pulls back gently on the rope that holds her.
    — Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Turner sang of brittle love, my mom pumped her fist in assent.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Hours before the nurses embarked, the queen gave her assent.
    — Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The bill needs the lieutenant-governor's assent to become law in the province.
    — Madison Park, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Some believe the move had Saudi assent and is part of a divide-and-rule strategy by the two Gulf states.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Investors were hot on crypto and prices were beginning their assent to the moon.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 May 2022
  • When the nurse offered to take Christian to the nursery that first night, both John and Megan murmured assent, then fell asleep before the two had even left the room.
    — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Government exists by the assent of the people, the public.
    — courant.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • And then Bridgers and Baker jump in, almost screaming their assent.
    — Amos Barshad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Jean paused and, interpreting the lack of response as assent, went on.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • All of this assumes that Texas peacefully leaves the Union with Congress’s assent.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • In the agreement reached Friday, Mexico did not assent to those changes.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 7 June 2019
  • The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Catholicism is not a religion purely of the head, or a set of propositions one assents to.
    — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The physicist, reclining in an oxblood Eames lounge chair, offered that the hippies had saved physics, to murmurs of assent.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Lalgie reserved assent in May, and refused it last month.
    — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Well, a part of the ladder disassembled and that halted my assent.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Two-thirds of lawmakers would have to assent to change the constitution.
    — Arabile Gumede, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Back in Westminster, the Online Safety Bill is just a few hurdles away from assent.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2023
  • That requires securing support in the House, the Lords, and then receiving the Queen’s royal assent.
    — Adam Rasmi, Quartz, 19 Oct. 2019
  • There was a roar of hopeful assent from a crowd hungry for a message that could meet this political moment.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024

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