skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "assent" in a sentence

    assent example sentences

    assent


    assented


    assenting


    assents


    1. Bolt rattles his head in assent, grins, takes the hose emanating from the hooka, closes his eyes, puts the mouthpiece between his lips and takes a huge drag


    2. Theo nodded in assent


    3. Theo nodded his assent


    4. Jake chuckled and nodded his assent


    5. There was a general muttering of assent


    6. The driver grunted his assent, quickly starting the engine and


    7. Briz smiled warmly and nodded his assent


    8. Jameson nodded vigorously at the request and the others smiled in assent


    9. to the younger woman, who nodded her assent


    10. canon! Church leaders only gave their assent to what

    11. Lee nodded in assent, and Grant went on to say that he hoped


    12. Reluctantly, her eyes still lowered, she nodded her assent


    13. Two nodded as though in assent


    14. “Are you sure, after all the things you know I’ve done, that you want to be involved with me?” She kept her gaze latched to his, nodding assent


    15. He nodded without genuine assent, stoop upright and walked to where the flask had landed


    16. Karol and his friends murmured their assent, although Colling sensed that it was less than enthusiastic


    17. Mashu gave him a strangely quizzical look, but only nodded his head in assent, as his gaze returned to his mother’s sagging posture


    18. They managed a muffled assent


    19. In the darkness, other choristers murmured their assent and drove away


    20. With Carlotta’s assent, I gave him all of our food and he ate everything

    21. My exasperated mind began to count them as we began the never ending assent


    22. Without clarity and emotional assent of what use is


    23. Without waiting for an assent, he opened the four Links simultaneously and passed his surface memory of the event to Tithian and the three elves


    24. They gave him their mental assent


    25. He laughed in assent, and she brought them directly to the master bedroom in the cottage at Hilia


    26. Korah smiled his assent as he offered, “I’m impressed! The last have suddenly become first!”


    27. As she spoke the words of quick assent, a thought slipped past the inhibition that had stood constant guard over Moshe’s emotions, “How like Sari she is


    28. Ward and Jones nodded assent


    29. A stamped foot of assent was all he got as Yigal drew himself up to full erect posture


    30. Korah smiled his assent as he offered, “I'm impressed! The last have suddenly become first!”

    31. the better!” He paused realizing that he hadn't waited to hear any assent, while thinking, Don't


    32. finally gave his assent


    33. appeared to fidget with something in his hand momentarily before waving assent to the man


    34. As she spoke the words of quick assent, a thought slipped past the inhibition that had stood


    35. Several of the senators nodded assent and muttered under their breath


    36. The rest laughed in assent


    37. Liza nodded in assent


    38. Joshie smiled as he nodded assent, “That's for sure


    39. Joshie nodded a glassy eyed assent, held up two fingers, nodded boyishly, and said in a little


    40. Summers was about to speak again, to strengthen her argument, when the Major nodded his assent

    41. A chorus of voices gave their assent


    42. She would have liked being provided with our comprehension and assent, after all we were her only family, and only because of it she considered to share the concepts that were sustaining her position, knowing, in advance, that we would consider it to be unacceptable due to the proper nature of our characters


    43. There was no menace in her tone, so I shrugged apologetic assent


    44. He sniffed assent and I left him to it


    45. Mr Pinot smiled his assent, turned again to the computer, typed in an access code and invited Bart to look over his shoulder


    46. Sanjay shrugged his shoulders in assent; the question was more or less rhetorical


    47. ’ Jeff nodded his head vigorously in assent and Susie bestowed the kiss of a witch on each young cheek and changed the subject


    48. The headmaster’s head was at that moment buried in a folder of notes, but Mr Pinot nodded and affably mumbled his assent


    49. Louise glanced over at Ruth and seeing the look on her face, gave her assent


    50. same time sharply separated, for the assent of each Brother is required to










































    1. Harry assented to their request, and on New Year's morning Chloe led me down to the Clive House undercroft, their gymnasium


    2. I explained the plan to her and she assented on my


    3. ” Clodius assented with a crooked grin


    4. The O'Neills assented with eagerness, and Betty began to sew in a


    5. "Not till then, of course," assented Santa Claus


    6. "Maybe--maybe," assented Miss Cornelia


    7. " Rosemary assented at once, quite willing to humour Ellen


    8. But he assented to her request with his unfailing gentle courtesy and went away at once


    9. I assented, and I made it up to him at the stadium


    10. I had told them on my second full day back that I wanted to be moved to the HMO and they assented, it just had not happened yet

    11. I assented; however, she called back the following day, a Friday, asking if instead I could be in Newcastle, UK, by Monday morning


    12. He finally assented, put down his beer bottle, and


    13. It surely got President Bush, the father, into trouble when he believingly assented to tax increases on a mere expectation that the Democrats would support his further legislation


    14. unwanted necessity that is quickly spoken, assented to


    15. On three occasions when it was deemed wise to punish Jude for self-confessed and deliberate violations of the family rules of conduct, his punishment was fixed by the unanimous decree of the older children and was assented to by Jude himself before it was inflicted


    16. The portress who kept the gate knew John, and when he spoke to her, requesting that she let Peter in, she gladly assented


    17. Publio assented volubly, and Conan emptied the wine vessel, tossed it carelessly into a corner, and strode to a near-by casement, involuntarily expanding his chest as he breathed deep of the salt air


    18. " I assented to him, though I really did not know if what he said had proof


    19. The armor was endorsed with her mark, which validated his claim on her, proving that she assented to the arrangement


    20. Thelma and Alicia readily assented

    21. ” The huge creature assented to her wishes and


    22. daughter, doctor?” The man assented and left her alone with her daughter


    23. compliant youth assented by passing the glowing book to the red-haired sprite


    24. Such magnificent interpretation of this verse is assented in Az-Zilzal (The Earthquake) Fortress when God tells us about the state of the earth on Doomsday, saying: “When Earth is rocked in her last convulsion;”


    25. Mark gladly assented and in no time got to work on the construction of a business centre at the property


    26. I could go with you they selflessly assented, but-”


    27. "Yes," she assented, after a pause during which, her eyes still fixed on the fare, she appeared to be counting


    28. "It is," he assented, as he heard the rain beating against the windows


    29. Langhorne assented by silence


    30. "That's all right," assented Kennedy, "but I don't think it will have any effect

    31. Mama,” she assented joyfully


    32. "Yes, yes, that's it," Lebeziatnikov assented gleefully, "that must be it, for he asked me, as soon as Sofya Semyonovna came into our room, whether you were here, whether I had seen you among Katerina Ivanovna's guests


    33. "Yes!" she assented sharply and hurriedly


    34. " I said: "We had better go back to town as quick as we can," and my friend assented with a troubled look: "Yes, you had better


    35. Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation


    36. I, who knew what a "good man," in a sailor sense, he was, assented without reserve


    37. "You will," assented his mother


    38. Marianne assented most feelingly to the remark; and her mother was led by it to an enumeration of Colonel Brandon's injuries and merits, warm as friendship and design could unitedly dictate


    39. "Ha!" assented the miner


    40. To this he assented with a good deal of reluctance

    41. Thus he spoke, and the other Greeks revered the priest and assented


    42. assented to whatever he pleased-In an instant, then, my under petticoat


    43. Gamut cheerfully assented, and together they sought the females


    44. Bert, who was their only child and not very robust, had early shown a talent for drawing, so when his father died a little over a year ago, his mother readily assented when the boy said that he wished to become a decorator


    45. Peter's?" Franz silently assented; and the following afternoon, at half-past five o'clock, the young men parted


    46. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but


    47. Crass and his partner readily assented, and in spite of Ruth's whispered entreaty that they should return home without further delay, Easton insisted on joining the game


    48. "No, Pip," Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; "and


    49. "No, no," my guardian assented; "don't have too much to do with him


    50. I modestly assented, and we all fell through a little dirty swing door, into a sort of hot packing-case immediately behind it




































    1. I mean to say something sharp, or nonchalant, but the only sound that escapes me is an assenting noise, squeezed tight by my swollen throat


    2. With the husband or lover or whatever assenting, doing the same with someone else


    3. ” She glanced in his direction and received an assenting shrug


    4. The Frenchman bit his lip, and fastened his eyes keenly on the other as if to read his thoughts; then, with a readiness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army:


    5. "So!" said she, assenting with her head, but not looking at me


    6. The properties were bought in in behalf of the assenting security holders; and creditors who refused to participate received in cash their pro rata share, if any, of the sale price


    7. The disadvantages for the poor man who submits will be aggravated by the fact that he will by taking part in it, and, as it were, assenting to it strengthen the state of subjection in which he is held himself


    1. There was a chorus of assents from around the table and Steve bowed his head


    2. A majority, however, decide that it is within their authority; the principal is informed of it, does not complain or disavow, but positively and by the strongest implication assents to the construction given by his agents


    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "assent"

    acquiescence assent accede acquiesce agree concur admit consent subscribe allow accord authorisation authorization accession yes approbation

    "assent" definitions

    agreement with a statement or proposal to do something


    to agree or express agreement