Sentences with pledge
pledge
P p - The meeting ended with a pledge to step up cooperation between the six states of the region.
- Mr Dudley has pledged to give any award to charity. [VERB to-infinitive]
- Pledge applies to anything given as security for the performance of an act or contract or for the payment of a debt [he gave her a ring as a pledge]; earnest2, in current usage, applies to anything given or done as an indication, promise, or assurance of more to follow [her early triumphs are an earnest of her success]; token is used of anything serving or given as evidence of authority, genuineness, good faith, etc. [this watch is a token of our gratitude]; pawn1 now usually refers to an article left as security for the money lent on it by a pawnbroker; , hostage is applied to a person handed over as a pledge for the fulfillment of certain terms or one seized and kept to force others to comply with demands
- The French President is pledging $150 million in French aid next year. [VERB noun]
- ...a pledge of forty-two million dollars a month. [+ of]
- The President pledged himself to increase taxes for the rich but not the middle classes. [VERB pronoun-reflexive to-infinitive]
- He asked her to pledge the house as security for a loan. [VERB noun]
- The gift is a pledge of their sincerity
- We drank a pledge to their success
- He pledged allegiance
- They were pledged to secrecy
- A thing held in pledge
- To pledge allegiance, pledge money to a fund
- A pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- To put a thing in pledge.
- To pledge hearers to secrecy.
- To pledge one's support.
- To pledge for someone.