How to Use assent in a Sentence

assent

1 of 2 verb
  • The general proposed a detailed plan and the President assented.
  • When Nguyen assented, the man pledged to vote for him, no questions asked.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The latter measure is being challenged in court and the nation’s president has yet to assent to it.
    — Kaula Nhongo / Bloomberg, TIME, 21 June 2024
  • Pyongyang assented, and preparations were made to bring Warmbier home.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • My dilemma relates not to the legal issue of consent but to whether a 13-year-old has an ethical right to assent to care.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Her mother reluctantly assented, so long as Carol went with her.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Women in former eras were downtrodden and frequently assented to it.
    — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 15 Jan. 2025
  • By the time the country reluctantly assented to some foreign assistance, the disaster had started to slip from the news.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The Prince assented to this and his examination was concluded.
    — Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The country’s attorney general — a Bolsonaro ally — needs to assent to a trial of the president in court.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Five of the seven assenting justices carry baggage that strains their credibility.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • Their mothers assented because anything the cousins did together could be considered family time.
    — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
  • Some British leaders express hope that Europe will assent to a deal that allows finance to carry on, even as Britain leaves the single market.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • In its view, pushing a button manifests assent only if the user is explicitly advised that doing so manifests consent to the terms.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022
  • Switzerland voted to enshrine the availability of cash in its constitution, assenting to a push designed to guard against the demise of physical money.
    — Bastian Benrath-Wright, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Some of them assented to a ceremonial final flight, a last twirl for the cameras and dignitaries, like the Parisian leg of the Tour de France.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The way Americans assent to such treatments fits more broadly into a culture of arduous self-improvement regimens.
    — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
  • In any case, Morena and its allies do not yet control the legislatures of most of the 32 states; to change the constitution, a majority must assent.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • As part of the agreement, Hickenlooper also assented to the creation of a task force to make recommendations on future fracking policies.
    — Mark K. Matthews, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • His representatives soon assented to de Moraes’s orders, including taking down the offending accounts and paying the fines.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • These agreements encourage assenting parties to perform due diligence, helping to identify potential gaps in the data protection chain.
    — Chris Novak, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Miraculously, though, Pop assented, and Aldridge has not only been better this season—with Kawhi out, there was a vacuum to fill—but looked far more comfortable.
    — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Moderna resisted, but agreed to provide test subjects with enhanced disclosures on its informed consent form, to which the FDA assented.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • But other European voters also have assented to the Lisbon Treaty, which contemplates exits such as the one Britain is attempting.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Germany and other northern European deficit hawks also assented to the temporary lifting of limits on spending in the European Union.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • In an innovative hybrid arrangement, Cambodian and international jurists were paired at every stage, and a majority had to assent for a case to go forward.
    — Sopheng Cheang, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Two counsellors of state act jointly in exercising royal powers such as assenting to laws, receiving ambassadors and holding Privy Council meetings.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Children, who will have to assent to giving blood or saliva for genetic testing, need someone to explain what is happening to them and why their samples are required, Wolf adds—and older children should have the right to agree or reject testing.
    — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 26 June 2018
  • The government has also resorted to constitutional chicanery, exploiting the fact that Kashmir’s state legislature—which would normally have to assent to such changes—was dissolved over a year ago.
    — The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019

assent

2 of 2 noun
  • The mother colony did not assent.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The party cannot win lasting assent to its rule by force alone.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Turner sang of brittle love, my mom pumped her fist in assent.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • My gumshoes grunted their assent and began to build the file.
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 5 Oct. 2020
  • And not just consumed, but gave the assent to the entire group to consume her.
    — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 6 May 2023
  • Investors were hot on crypto and prices were beginning their assent to the moon.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 May 2022
  • State and local health officials still must provide their assent as well.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • George’s job was to assent to the policies passed by Parliament.
    — Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • George's job was to assent to the policies passed by Parliament.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • Jean paused and, interpreting the lack of response as assent, went on.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • The assent had come from a civil servant who apparently didn’t see the harm.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2022
  • Well, a part of the ladder disassembled and that halted my assent.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The bill needs the lieutenant-governor's assent to become law in the province.
    — Madison Park, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • And then Bridgers and Baker jump in, almost screaming their assent.
    — Amos Barshad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Two-thirds of lawmakers would have to assent to change the constitution.
    — Arabile Gumede, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Finally Nevaeh nods, the barest hint of assent, and a counselor pulls back gently on the rope that holds her.
    — Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Catholicism is not a religion purely of the head, or a set of propositions one assents to.
    — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In some cases, this takes place with the senators’ unspoken assent.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 June 2019
  • There was a roar of hopeful assent from a crowd hungry for a message that could meet this political moment.
    — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In the agreement reached Friday, Mexico did not assent to those changes.
    — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 7 June 2019
  • Bezos would recognize all of this, and perhaps nod in vigorous assent.
    — Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • As Knox talks, a crowd gathers and nods in assent, offering their own stories of decades of trauma and neglect.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Some believe the move had Saudi assent and is part of a divide-and-rule strategy by the two Gulf states.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The physicist, reclining in an oxblood Eames lounge chair, offered that the hippies had saved physics, to murmurs of assent.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • All of this assumes that Texas peacefully leaves the Union with Congress’s assent.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Although rare, presidents can also call up the Guard, with or without the assent of a state governor.
    — Luke William Hunt, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This tends to be more of a formality, and royal assent hasn't been refused since 1708.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Many nations joined the chorus, chanting day after day, indicating their assent.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Once the bill has cleared all stages, it would then be sent to the monarch for royal assent before being passed on to each Commonwealth realm for approval.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The bill was first read in the House of Commons in April and received royal assent on June 22.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 July 2023

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