"confess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

confess verbo

confess + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 11
confess one's love • confess one's sins • confess one's crimes • confess one's feelings • confess one's guilt • ...
verbo + confess
Kolokacji: 3
confess to killing • forced to confess • mind confessing
confess + preposición
Kolokacji: 13
confess to • confess in • confess for • confess with • confess on • ...
confess + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 28
later confess • once confess • finally confess • eventually confess • freely confess • ...
(1) later, afterward
Kolokacji: 2
1. later confess = później przyznaj się later confess
2. confess afterward = przyznaj się potem confess afterward
  • "It's the worst result in my career," Queiroz confessed afterward.
  • As she confessed afterward, Doris was sliding toward that marginal state where fatigue bleeds into exhaustion and then boredom.
  • The idea, one confesses afterward, must have struck them "during a moment of temporary mental apparition."
  • One of the soldiers who executed him afterward confessed on his deathbed that he had killed a saint.
  • Temple Coach John Chaney confessed afterward that he simply did not know what to do yet.
  • Vladimir Santic, a military police commander, maintained his innocence throughout the trial, but confessed afterward and expressed remorse.
  • Mr. Bush confessed to reporters afterward that he felt a little embarrassed by his display of emotion before the delegates.
  • As she confessed to me afterward, she bullied him with tears and hysteria and threats of a scandal that would shake the throne.
  • If I melded now there would be many things I would want to confess to the council afterward and you know it.
  • It was the squint, Bert confessed afterward, that first caught his fancy, and convinced him there was "something to her."
(3) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(4) publicly, privately
Kolokacji: 2
(5) humbly, proudly
Kolokacji: 2

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