swear on

Frequency: 7.411.8 per million words

make a promise, resting its validity on something important (e.g., a holy book, someone's life)

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Examples (10)

  • I swear on my mother's life that I didn't see him.
  • He made her swear on the Bible that she would keep the secret.
  • Do you swear on your honor that you are telling the truth?
  • The witness had to swear on the Quran.
  • She wanted to swear on her children's lives that she was innocent.
  • He would swear on a stack of Bibles that he was telling the truth.
  • The king made his knights swear on their swords to protect the realm.
  • I can swear on my grandmother's grave that I didn't do it.
  • The contract required him to swear on a sacred text.
  • They made him swear on his reputation that the information was accurate.