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Example sentences for "recanting"

Lexicographically close words:
recals; recant; recantation; recantations; recanted; recants; recapitulate; recapitulated; recapitulates; recapitulating
  1. Ere my tongue Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear The slavish motive of recanting fear, And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace, Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.

  2. General Terry's testimony is borne out by that of the United States officials and secret agents and the evidence of recanting members of the order.

  3. They are born out by the records of the local and federal courts, by the testimony of the surviving sufferers and by the voluntary confession of recanting members of the organization.

  4. He lost his power of speaking long before death approached so near as to suggest recanting to him.

  5. Thomas Nixon and Captain Daniel Pelton: "All you have heard of his recanting is false.

  6. I have had a letter from Lloyd; the young metaphysician of Caius is well, and is busy recanting the new heresy, metaphysics, for the old dogma, Greek.

  7. He quotes the canons and conciliar decrees to show that recanting heretics are to be immured for life, whence he argues that the prison should be afflictive and penal.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recanting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    contradictory; contrary; negative; opposing; repugnant