profess

Example Sentences

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I profess no ultimate wisdom but that’s what I’m getting from the comments that they make.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Both Melling and Lighton profess gratitude that a star of Skarsgård’s profile wanted to be part of “Pillion.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

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 • Feb. 3, 2026

Although they profess to be in this screwy loyalty gauntlet for similar reasons, not everyone’s impetus is the same.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2025

Burr’s response was incisively curt: “having Considered it attentively,” he wrote, “I regret to find in it nothing of that sincerity and delicacy which you profess to Value.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis