How To Use confute In A Sentence
- I took old Howard along, and he perked up and confuted the doctors, so that it was three years before I buried him restored to the bosom of my family. SHIN-BONES
- As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools. CHAPTER XXXVII
- The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
- He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him.
- Taking the argument to a highly respectable theologian, she won her point (‘'tis I that must be confuted,’ he conceded graciously).
- One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments.
- But as philosophy was widely spread over the world, at the time when Christianity arose, the teachers of the new sect were obliged to form a system of speculative opinions; to divide, with some accuracy, their articles of faith; and to explain, comment, confute, and defend with all the subtilty of argument and science... The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series:
- Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
- The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Cecilia
- He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’
