protestations in English
her protestations of innocence were in vain
Use "protestations" in a sentence
1. But her protestations had been unfulfilled; she had not forgotten.
2. Gullibly I accepted his protestations that he cared only for me.
3. This action makes a mockery of the Government's continuing protestations of concern.
4. Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.
5. And that a few deferential protestations would take the edge from her displeasure.
6. 23 I do not pretend tha t my protestations should acquit me.
7. Sometimes by tender lamentations and Bewailings, and sometimes by crocodile tears and amorous protestations
8. Synonyms for Averments include affirmations, allegations, asseverations, avouchments, declarations, protestations, statements, verifications, assertions and avowals
9. Whatever the protestations of loyalty, his colleagues were more interested in spotting which ribs he was sliding his verbal stiletto between.
10. In Blow's version, Venus encourages Adonis to go hunting, despite his protestations: Adonis: Adonis will not hunt today: I have already caught the noblest prey.
11. Despite her protestations, he " Audaciously " pushed a six-inch knife into the tyres of their Ford Focus and walked off
12. He had been brought up with Lutheranism, a pastor's son subjected to sermons, beatings and high piety, and for all his protestations his films were full of it.
13. The two old Crones, chiming in together, began pouring out many piteous lamentations that the poor dear was too far gone to know her best friends; and were uttering sundry protestations that they would never leave her, when the superior pushed them from the room, closed the door, and returned to the bedside.
14. He that Blesseth his friend - He who makes loud and public protestations of acknowledgments to his friend for favors received, subjects his sincerity to suspicion; and remember the Italian proverb elsewhere quoted: - "He who praises you more than he was wont to do, has either deceived you, or is about to do it." Extravagant public professions
15. Ainsi, la majorité de sa population languit dans la pauvreté la plus Abjecte.: Consequently, the majority of its population languishes in abject poverty.: Cette trahison Abjecte et cynique a provoqué une éruption de protestations et de colère dans les districts des plantations.: This abject and cynical betrayal provoked an eruption of angry protests throughout the plantation districts.
16. Ugarte engages in a series of stratagems to avoid Agustini and to refuse to heed her protestations of love: her presence in his life is simply too inconvenient, and he is left to attempt to console himself with cheap romantic cliches about the finality of her death and his own Aimlessness.The result is a very adequate depiction of masculinist disengagement and the terrible cruelty of admiring