Vowed Sentence Examples

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  • She vowed to keep searching.

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  • Not falling for it this time, she vowed to herself.

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  • I vowed to not turn my back to him.

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  • Jerome vowed that he would not leave Vienna till he had cleared himself from the accusation of heresy.

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  • I vowed that I was going to lose the weight.

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  • We vowed to protect our own anonymity at all costs.

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  • Impressed by their efforts to relieve human suffering during the Franco-Prussian war, Barton vowed to bring this same type of service home to the United States.

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  • He vowed to spend the rest of his life telling people what the king 's son had done for him.

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  • I vowed then that this was what I wanted when I became a mother.

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  • On her blog, she has vowed to try harder during the last trimester of her second pregnancy to eat more vegetables and fewer sweets.

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  • It was then that she met and studied the International Red Cross, and vowed to bring their services back to the United States.

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  • Wearing his and hers matching promise rings can be a wonderful way for a couple to show their commitment to one another as well as to a promise they have vowed to keep.

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  • Her interest in the world of gluten-free cosmetics is fueled by her husband's 2006 diagnosis of celiac disease, whereupon, Erika vowed to maintain more than a gluten-free kitchen, i.e., a gluten-free home.

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  • How does she feel when the neighbors tell her about Claire, the old lady who owned the house before the Smiths and vowed to kill anyone foolhardy enough to purchase the old manse?

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  • He has vowed vengeance on the DiMeras after they ordered his grandson to be beaten and son to be shot.

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  • He's the CEO of Titan Industries, and has vowed vengeance on the DiMeras along with his father.

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  • Since then, Deacon Blue have continued their trend of intensive touring, having vowed to continue despite Graeme's death, followed closely by their loyal fans and, further behind, the watchful eye of the media.

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  • In the wake of the event, the show vowed to improve security and restrict the size of the crowd for the open calls.

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  • Jorge, for example, vowed that he would not swear on television.

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  • Kourtney vowed to stand by him as a friend but nothing more.

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  • Many original series Trekkers were dismayed, and vowed to have nothing to do with the new series.

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  • Jessi vowed to lecture Ash on her choices of men, assuming she survived this.

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  • During the struggles with Barbarossa, when freedom seemed on the point of being destroyed, many Milanese vowed themselves, their goods and their families to the Virgin should their city come safely out of her troubles.

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  • Preserved by the devotion of his thegn Lilla,Edwin vowed to become a Christian if victorious over his treacherous enemy.

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  • Howie, with his disappointment intensified, vowed to do everything it took to apprehend the culprit he nicknamed the Delabama Killer.

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  • I knew rape was power to the perpetrator so I vowed to be firm and possibly defiant, and not display fear.

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  • She vowed to solve the problem without further bloodshed.

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  • He is vowed to the cult, and becomes celibate for at least duration of this stage.

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  • They vowed perpetual chastity and poverty, believing the poor were the Lord's favorites.

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  • The room displayed a faded elegance which I vowed to retain.

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  • Merseyside fire brigade has vowed to take action against people who sell fireworks illegally.

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  • Despite this, staff at Darley Oaks, which breeds guinea pigs for scientific research, have vowed to continue working as normal.

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  • We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

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  • However, only the European Commission can formally initiate legislation so the ETUC has vowed to add to the pressure on them.

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  • She vowed she 'd gang tae kirk that Sabbath anaa.

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  • Ana Paula Dos Santos added that the Angolan government vowed to eradicate poliomyelitis by 2005, which calls for a hard work.

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  • He often vowed to himself that he would exact no ordinary revenge.

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  • She has vowed to banish litter, fly-tipped rubbish, graffiti and abandoned cars from West Middlesbroughâs streets.

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  • He vowed to spend the rest of his life telling people what the king's son had done for him.

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  • After a stern talking-to by his mom the teenage star has vowed to improve.

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  • He also vowed, if he should bear rule himself, to make no violent use of his power, nor outshine those set under him by superior display, to make it his aim to cherish the truth and unmask liars, to be pure from theft and unjust gain, to conceal nothing from his fellow-members, nor to divulge any of their affairs to other men, even at the risk of death, to transmit their doctrines unchanged, and to keep secret the books of the society and the names of the angels.

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  • I had always vowed vengeance, and now I had my chance.

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  • The EU has vowed to fight the case, which could be a long, drawn out process.

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  • The support group have vowed to continue in their fight for justice.

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  • The Government has vowed to defend the UK opt-out from the working time directive.

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  • Isn't it funny how the promise of a new season in the spotlight can all of a sudden cause a pair who vowed to "never speak again" to once again become BFFs?

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  • Later, Kirstie took a new approach to her weight and vowed to slim down.

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  • Recently, though, he vowed to give up his beloved cars in a move to save the environment.Despite their gas-guzzling tendencies and the current trend of going "green," many stars are proud to be seen in their rugged Hummers.

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  • Even if this wasn't the case, Sutherland has vowed he will do anything necessary, even serve additional jail time, in order to prevent disrupting the show's production as well as the jobs of the show's cast and crew.

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  • Who knows, nonetheless, on January 3, 2004 Brit-Brit vowed "till death do us part" to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander.

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  • In 2007, however, he vowed never to appear naked on camera again because of his children.

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  • Swayze himself confirmed this in a later interview with Barbara Walters, though he also vowed that he would do everything he could to beat the disease and survive.

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  • Yully listened, breathless, to the strangers who vowed to protect her from a threat similar to her father.

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  • The tithes vowed to him by Romans and men of Sora and Reate, for safety on journeys and voyages, furnished sacrifices and (in Rome) public entertainment (polluctum).

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  • In this he erred grievously, of the Edward vowed revenge for his slaughtered favorites, queens and waited his opportunity.

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  • The final line of the article vowed to pursue the anomaly in coming additions.

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  • Furiously angry, she vowed she would ' get them haunted ' .

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  • His touch was so soothing and cool, she vowed to give him whatever blood

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  • Subsequently he entered holy orders, and in c. 1120, being stricken with fever while on a pilgrimage to Rome, vowed that he would found a hospital in London.

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  • He was supported by his kinsman Giovanni Visconti, judge of Gallura; but almost all the other great families vowed eternal hatred against him, and proclaimed him a traitor to his party, his country and his kin.

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  • In his revised New Testament Marcion speaks of " the covenant which is the mother of us all, which begets us in the holy Church, to which we have vowed allegiance."

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  • They came accompanied by a band of Roman maidens vowed to live a celibate life in a nunnery in Palestine.

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  • The members were to be gentilshor y nznes de nom et d'armes et sans reproche, not knights of any other order, and vowed to join their sovereign in the defence of the Catholic faith, the protection of Holy Church, and the upholding of virtue and good morals.

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  • Aetiologists connected both offerings with the Cretan expedition of Theseus, who, when driven ashore at Delos, vowed a thank-offering to Apollo if he slew the Minotaur, which afterwards took the form of the eiresione and Pyanopsia.

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  • On the 25th of November Cromwell charged Manchester with "unwillingness to have the war prosecuted to a full victory"; which Manchester answered by accusing Cromwell of having used expressions against the nobility, the Scots and Presbyterianism; of desiring to fill the army of the Eastern Association with Independents to prevent any accommodation; and of having vowed if he met the king in battle he would as lief fire his pistol at him as at anybody else.

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  • Having been overtaken by a violent storm, to ensure his safety he vowed to sacrifice to Poseidon the first living thing that met him when he landed on his native shore.

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  • At a banquet shortly afterwards Philip vowed that he would lead a crusade against the Turks, who had seized Constantinople, and the knights of his court swore to follow his example.'

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  • At the Scandinavian sacrificial feasts a horn consecrated to Bragi was used as a drinkingcup by the guests, who then vowed to do some great deed which would be worthy of being immortalized in verse.

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  • On the 12th of April 1465 Philip handed over to his son the entire administration of his 1 This was the singular vow known as "the vow of the pheasant," from the fact that Philip placed his hand solemnly on a pheasant, which had been brought to him by his herald, and vowed that he would fight the Turks and challenge their sultan to single combat.

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  • He thus gained the blessing intended for the first-born, and Esau, on hearing how he had been forestalled, vowed to kill him.

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  • Such a basis could not be found, and when Charles stirred up a fresh civil war and a Scottish invasion (1648) the leaders of the army vowed that, if victory was theirs, they would bring him to justice.

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  • In 207 Marcus Livius Salinator, after the defeat of Hasdrubal at the battle of Sena, vowed another temple to Juventas in the Circus Maximus, which was dedicated in 191 by C. (or M.) Licinius Lucullus; it was destroyed by fire in 16 B.C. and rebuilt by Augustus.

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  • Before the battle, in which King Harold fell, William vowed to build an abbey on the spot if he should prove victorious, and in 10 94 the consecration took place with great pomp. The gatehouse, forming a picturesque termination to the main street of the town, is Decorated; and there also remain parts of the foundations of the Norman church, of the Perpendicular cloisters, and of the Early English refectory.

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  • The vestals were vowed to, chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.

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  • It was in vain that the popes sought to gather a new Crusade for its recovery; Pius II., who had vowed to join the crusade in person, only reached Ancona in 1464 to find the crusaders deserting and to die.

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  • Tradition tells that James vowed " to make the key keep the castle, and the bush keep the cow," even though he " lived a dog's life " in the endeavour.

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  • So, for example, Eudocia, the wife of Theodosius II., vowed to undertake a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, if she should see her daughter married.

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  • It is said that Abu Ja`far, whilst in Khorasan, was so impressed by the unlimited power of Abu Moslim, and saw so clearly that, though he called his brother and himself his masters, he considered them as his creatures, that he vowed his death at the first opportunity.

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  • In the Shepherd of Hermas a vision of the church rewards frequent fasts and prayer; and it is related in extra-canonical sources that James the Less vowed that he would fast until he too was vouchsafed a vision of the risen Lord.

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  • Hart in The Jewish Quarterly Review for July 1907, the gist of which is that Jesus commends the Pharisees for insisting that when a man has vowed a vow to God he should pay it even though his parents should suffer.

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  • There the vow was generally one of war or revenge, and, till it was accomplished, the man who vowed left his hair unshorn and unkempt, and abstained from wine, women, ointment and perfume.

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  • Driven by persecution from Moravia, hunted into mountain-caves and forests, they had scarcely secured a place of refuge in Saxony before, " though a mere handful in numbers, yet with the spirit of men banded for daring and righteous deeds, they formed the heroic design, and vowed the execution of it before God, of bearing the gospel to the savage and perishing tribes of Greenland and the West Indies, of whose condition report had brought a mournful rumour to their ears.

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  • Having been cured of this, as she believed, by the intercession of the Holy Virgin, she changed her name to Marie and vowed to devote her life to her service.

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  • The archaeologist George Oliver of Exeter was, according to Foley's Records of the English Province, the last of the secular priests of England who vowed obedience to the Society before its suppression.

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