How to Use fess in a Sentence

fess

verb

• Those familiar with the process wouldn’t fess up to which tweets were staff-written.
  — Annie Linskey, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• Instead of trying to take the easy way out, straighten your spine, fess up and do the right thing.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 1 June 2020
• Before the night ended, my dad would fess up and everyone had a good laugh.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 18 June 2021
• But later in the episode, which was taped in March, Gina fessed up.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• Upon learning of his wife’s trickery, Bradlee urged her to fess up.
  — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
• But sometimes the numbers just don’t add up, or fess up, and Game No.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• That's laudably fast; remember, Uber took over a year to fess up to its data-theft woes.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
• And a black student at the university fessed up to sending racist threats and planting a noose.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 25 June 2019
• When cops arrived to Reed's home, Reed allegedly fessed up to making the threats.
  — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 4 May 2018
• Jessica fishes around to see if any of her friends are getting similar threats, but no one fesses up.
  — refinery29.com, 18 May 2018
• If the price is outlandishly high, then the idea is never going to happen, supporters should fess up.
  — Jennifer Rubin, The Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• And von Frankenstein fesses up to being the reason behind any delay.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 11 May 2017
• Three months later, China finally fessed up that yes, the amateurs were right.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 28 Mar. 2018
• But now, less than a decade into this experiment, the industry is ‘fessing up.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
• The caller was the Comedy Cellar’s booker, and Velez had to fess up.
  — Stuart Miller, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2021
• Chris Wetherell fessed up to the RT button on Twitter’s being perhaps a bad idea.
  — Rose Eveleth, Wired, 28 Dec. 2019
• Equally, a leader with RSD who can’t ‘fess up to their own shortcomings will create havoc.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The little girl at first denied placing the $162 order, but eventually fessed up.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
• As for Oprah’s mysterious third hand, Vanity Fair fessed up to the error.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 26 Jan. 2018
• When none of her friends will fess up to the betrayal, in despair Tati takes a drastic, irreversible step that will affect everyone.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2018
• The site fessed up to the maneuver in a blog post, saying the idea was to raise money to finance the site without needing to rely on advertising.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• Messing up, then fessing up The aftermath of a scandal is unpredictable.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• Cheryl comes in and ‘fesses up, and also takes responsibility for sending Archie to shake Nick down.
  — Jessica MacLeish, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
• After keeping it a secret that Weaver had won the scholarship, Earnhardt finally fessed up to her in his office as her parents stood near.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 13 Apr. 2018
• And after allowing a single to Pablo Sandoval, Uehara finally fessed up that the lower right side of his neck was bothering him.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The gap between senders and receivers could mean that some teens may not be fessing up to the spicy trend; some senders may dispatch their risqué communiqués to multiple people; or some receivers just don’t reciprocate.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Feb. 2018
• And Ramona didn't fess up to being a socially incompetent citizen who has traveled for the entirety of quarantine or anything like that.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• During a recent appearance at Leicester University, Middleton fessed up to a fan.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2018
• The sisters all agree that this tracks, but the real issue arises when Woods doesn't immediately fess up to having an inappropriate interaction with him.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• Additionally, the survey found that nearly 50 percent of parents would opt their child out of receiving homework in at least one subject area, while one in three fessed up to having finished their child’s homework for them.
  — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2019