adjure in a sentence
Examples
- "A cliche and a fuzzy one, " adjured Strunk and White in " The Elements of Style ."
- Similarly, at Sinai, as reports, " Moses took half of the blood " ( thus adjuring them with the blood ).
- Accordingly, in that Proclamation, the President adjured the citizens of South Carolina to desist from any efforts to resist the Tariff Act under the pretense of nullification.
- Professor tacked on . . . adjured . . . entreated . . . beseeched . . . . He said that he did say that he had said that.
- Bruce hurried from Dumfries to Glasgow, where his friend and supporter Bishop Robert Wishart granted him absolution and subsequently adjured the clergy throughout the land to rally to Bruce.
- The police are complicit in the crimes they are granted prior knowledge of Gull's intentions, and are adjured not to interfere until the plot is completed.
- The Gregory the Thaumaturge : " I adjure you all unclean spirits by Elohim, Adonai, Sabaoth, to come out and depart from the servant of God ."
- Condorcet declared that " he who votes against the right of another, whatever the religion, color, or sex of that other, has henceforth adjured his own ".
- At his throne, eight princesses anointed the king by pouring specially procured water atop his head, each using a conch bedazzled with gems white solemnly adjuring him in formulae to rule justly.
- It is a work in which she upbraids male poets for celebrating so many parts of a woman's body . " Let songs about the quim circulate, " she adjures her readers.