profess

Example Sentences

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Liebling didn’t profess to be the best wordsmith who ever lived, but he did say that he could write faster than anyone who could write better.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many observers have professed confusion over how Good, an unarmed person, can somehow be seen as a mortal threat.

From Salon

How much of his professed love of lonely living is an act to cover those growls?

From Literature

First, she had to stop fighting the Others, the term for the billions united in groupthink, and accept if not entirely trust that the collective love they profess to have for her is real.

From Salon

He professes a love for James Franco, drinking Guinness, thrifting, dancing in random bathrooms and delivering confessions from bed.

From Salon