How to Use confer in a Sentence

confer

verb
  • The lawyer and judge conferred about the ruling.
  • Certain bodies confer status to those granted access to them.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Does resistance training confer any direct benefits to the heart muscle itself?
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Under a timeline laid out in Friday’s order, the attorneys involved in the case have two weeks to confer and determine next steps.
    James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Moreover, presidential immunity is not conferred down the chain of command.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
  • All told, more than 20 lawmakers were invited to confer with Biden in Wednesday's meetings.
    Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Folt will offer the apology and confer the degrees at an Asian Pacific Alumni Assn.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • And that seems to be a reason the mutation spread: A single copy of the gene—effectively, having sickle cell trait—conferred protection against severe malaria.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Education confers status, Richardson said, but churchgoing doesn't.
    Joel Mathis, theweek, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Calls confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell shares.
    Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • The door reopens and the four men confer briefly before the clip ends.
    Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • The group conferred with a lawyer, who said the 1960 ad was in the public domain.
    Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Call options confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell.
    Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Of course, making the Open doesn’t confer a great shot at winning the Open.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
  • The cameras watch her confer with her team after the match.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The Kennedy Center — which will host and confer the prize March 24 — tried helping.
    Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But, in spite of any comforts conferred by the tree, the birds appeared to have left the area sometime around Sept. 1.
    Brendan Rascius, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • After all the dances are finished, the judges meet to tally their scores and confer.
    Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2017
  • Then degrees were conferred, the Stanford Hymn was sung, and heads bowed in prayer.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 18 June 2017
  • Each is trained and paid to confer with teachers for 30 minutes a week.
    Donna St. George, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This season the shiny coat will confer an up-to-the-minute aura on its wearer.
    Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Wade said some of the preparation remains the same, such as conferring with the starters.
    Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Weinstein showed no emotion as the lawyers on both sides and the judge conferred.
    Melissa Chan, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Call options give the right but not the obligation to buy shares, while puts confer the right to sell.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • While cute, these confer no survival advantage to the species as a whole and are not memes.
    James Conca, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The script was tweaked after conferring with the film’s subjects.
    Lily Moayeri, Spin, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The attorney for James Spears asked for a recess to confer with her client.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
  • Jenkins conferred with Huang, who said the smaller, the better.
    Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2020
  • Conferring berry status on mul and goose and cran (as well as the banana); not straw.
    Leah Eskin, idahostatesman, 18 July 2017
  • News is a report of facts, intended to confer a record of truth.
    Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024

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