verb
definition
To take an oath, to promise.
definition
To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
Examples of swear in a Sentence
I swear I would have seen anyone who was nearby.
I swear to God, I've had it with all this shit.
I swear to God I will!
If you let anything happen to her, I swear to the Original Beings I'll haunt you from the grave for the rest of your life!
I swear, I never intended for things to go that far.
I swear, I'll tell you all and disappear.
He'd kill me; I swear to God, he would!
I swear, sometimes I think he's completely against progress.
My accounts, which I can swear to have kept faithfully, I have, indeed, never got audited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled.
I swear, I have never used influence on you for any reason, never!
Nothing bad will ever happen to you again, Yully, I swear this to you.
But, if you do as Sasha says and break the bond, I will keep her safe, I swear it, Kris said.
If you hurt her, I swear I will find a way to kill you.
Rhyn saw the resolution on Kris's face. "I swear it," Rhyn said.
I swear to God I'll be there!
I swear to you, Gabriel, I never meant to hurt anyone.
You swear the Council will consider my debt to them repaid? he asked.
When all the Jewish people swore to be loyal to Caesar and the king's policy, the Pharisees - above 6000 - refused to swear.
Miguel, who was first required to swear fidelity to the charter.
Others may swear by established salon favorites such as Frederic Fekkai, Bumble and Bumble, Alterna and the infamously expensive celebrity favorite Kerastase.
We weren't there a minute, I swear.
Spare me this, and I swear, whatever it is you ask, I will grant you!
On admission all were to swear to co-operate so far as in them lay for the assertion of the principles of liberty and equality.
The result of the constitutional experiment hardly justified the royal expectations; the parliament was hardly opened (February 5th, 1819) before the doctrinaire radicalism of some of its members, culminating in the demand that the army should swear allegiance to the constitution, so alarmed the king, that he appealed to Austria and Germany, undertaking to carry out any repressive measures they might recommend.
The election took place on the 4th of June, when 152 votes out of 196, four being absent, determined that Leopold should be proclaimed king of the Belgians, under the express condition that he "would accept the constitution and swear to maintain the national independence and territorial integrity."
The whole of the Prussian military system, inciuding not only the obligation to military service, but the rules for recruiting, organization, drill and uniforms, has to be followed in all the states; all the contingents are under the command of the emperor, and the soldiers have to swear obedience to him in addition to the oath of allegiance to their own sovereign.
He might not lie nor take an oath, for the precept "Swear not at all" was, like the rest of the gospel, taken seriously.
He induced the ulemg to sign a letter, praying the sultan to revoke the command for reinstating the beys, persuaded the chiefs of the Albanian troops to swear allegiance to him, and sent 2000 purses contributed by them to Constantinople.
This was of great importance to William, not only for military reasons, but also because of his firm resolve to make the under-tenants (though the "men" of their lords) swear allegiance directly to himself.
Every king was obliged, on his inauguration, to swear that he would govern justly and according to law, to which he remained always subject.
Talleyrand celebrated Mass, and Lafayette was the first to swear fidelity to the Assembly and the nation.
Every day. I swear it. We won't be apart anymore. We'll stay here until I can get the castle cleaned out and beat the shit out of my brothers. They'll be moving in, even if they don't know it yet. And that's where Hazel will hatch and live.
I swear by my blood!
Greek students are naturally curious about swear words.
Except The Boss - that's his name, I swear - wants me to bring in another human cyborg on the run.
The duke of the Basques came to his court to swear fidelity, and at his villa at Clichy the chief of the Bretons of Domnone promised obedience.
As a result the clergy and the nobles were excluded from all membership of the commune, except inasmuch as that those residing in the town might be required to swear not to conspire against it.
A new oath of allegiance was imposed on all holders of civil or military office; they were required to swear that no foreign prelate had, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, whether civil or ecclesiastical, within the realm.
The flamen Dialis was not allowed to leave the city for a single night, to ride or even touch a horse (a restriction which incapacitated him for the consulship), to swear an oath, to look at an army, to touch anything unclean, or to look upon people working.
Saldanha, a prominent constitutionalist, threatened to march on Lisbon if the regency did not swear obedience to the charter by the 31st of July.
In 989 she visited Rome, where she exercised as imperatrix the imperial prerogatives, and probably compelled the Romans to swear to acknowledge her son.
But this laudation of times past concentrates itself almost wholly on the person of the sainted king whom, while with feudal independence he had declined to swear fealty to him, "because I was not his man," he evidently regarded with an unlimited reverence.
Bids them not to swear at all nor to expect any intercession of the departed saints for sinners.
Young men swear eternal brotherhood; girls, eternal sisterhood; and the Church ratifies their choice in a service at which the feet of the pair are chained together.
He demanded that Harold should swear to aid him in the project.
He generally gave way when pressed, without attempting an appeal to arms; he would then swear an oath to observe the Great Charter, and be detected in violating it again within a few months.
They swear they have no knowledge of even the existence of this person.
I didn't want to come here but I know about … he told me-- and I never told anyone, I swear it-- about your healing ability.
You are free to do whatever you want with that video, but I swear to you, there is nothing on it you should be afraid of.
I swear, on my soul, I serve Tiyan.