How to Use confer in a Sentence

confer

verb

• The lawyer and judge conferred about the ruling.
• The door reopens and the four men confer briefly before the clip ends.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Calls confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell shares.
  — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• The cameras watch her confer with her team after the match.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Call options confer the right to buy, while puts give the right to sell.
  — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
• Weinstein showed no emotion as the lawyers on both sides and the judge conferred.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
• The cameleers … conferred with each other about the safest path across.
  — Greg Child, Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child, 1993
• After all the dances are finished, the judges meet to tally their scores and confer.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2017
• The script was tweaked after conferring with the film’s subjects.
  — Lily Moayeri, Spin, 23 Aug. 2023
• Wade said some of the preparation remains the same, such as conferring with the starters.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Always refers to you by your full name in an effort to confer celebrity.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 29 July 2022
• While cute, these confer no survival advantage to the species as a whole and are not memes.
  — James Conca, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• 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
• News is a report of facts, intended to confer a record of truth.
  — Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024
• Bertha confers her blessing from a portrait that hangs on the wall where orders are picked up.
  — Chase Quinn, Bon Appetit, 6 June 2018
• Calls confer the right to buy shares at a certain price by a specific date.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 14 July 2023
• Johnson conferred in private with him and then pointed me toward a desk in the main room.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• But to confer license upon an agenda of vengeance will not end well.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• The two leaders left the chamber to confer privately about how to proceed.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The group conferred for a few moments before giving Ryu space to stretch.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• This season the shiny coat will confer an up-to-the-minute aura on its wearer.
  — Sharon Graubard, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Calls confer the right to buy shares at a specific price, later in time.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• The judges will now confer in private and write a decision that may not be issued for as long as three months.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
• There was lots of posing and conferring about the pics, then repeating.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Cara was, of course, singing about the posthumous longevity that fame can confer.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 25 May 2021
• Of course, making the Open doesn’t confer a great shot at winning the Open.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022
• Just the title was about the highest brainiac accolade that could be conferred.
  — al.com, 27 June 2019
• The attorney for James Spears asked for a recess to confer with her client.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
• Conferring berry status on mul and goose and cran (as well as the banana); not straw.
  — Leah Eskin, idahostatesman, 18 July 2017
• Jenkins conferred with Huang, who said the smaller, the better.
  — Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024