Proclaim

//pɹəʊˈkleɪm//

"Proclaim" in a Sentence (15 examples)

His manners proclaim him a gentleman.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

"In rolling ages there shall come the day / when heirs of old Assaracus shall tame / Phthia and proud Mycene to obey, / and terms of peace to conquered Greeks proclaim."

"Tell me," she says, "thy wanderings; stranger, come, / thy friends' mishaps and Danaan wiles proclaim; / for seven long summers now have seen thee roam / o'er every land and sea, far from thy native home."

"Lo! what Apollo from Ortygia's shrine / would sing, unasked he sends us to proclaim."

Tomorrow we shall proclaim a republic.

Gentlemen! Tomorrow we shall proclaim the Republic.

Yanni continued to proclaim his innocence.

You've only really won over your listeners when they adore your promises, fear your threats, hate what you complain about, gladly do as you suggest and regret what you regrettably proclaim.

Many textbooks on Japanese claim that the language has verbal tenses, namely, the past and the non-past, but many academics proclaim that Japanese has really verbal aspects, not tenses, namely the perfective and imperfective aspects. In this way, Tagalog is more like Japanese, with its complete, progressive, and contemplative as main aspects.

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Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

You have seen it for yourselves in the play by Aristophanes, where Socrates goes whirling round, proclaiming that he is walking on air, and uttering a great deal of other nonsense about things of which I know nothing whatsoever.

Were those baronies proclaimed at the time you were in them? –Some of them are; the barony of Duhallow is proclaimed.

… the Magistrates present, naturally excited by the occurrence, applied to Government to proclaim the baronies in which the outrage had occurred …

In due course the Dáil was proclaimed, fruitless efforts were made to suppress it and all its institutions, including, of course, the IRA.

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