professed

How To Use professed In A Sentence

• As a life-long Sox fan, Thomma professed deep offense at being put in the Cubs section when he blogged: ...in a crime against nature, your correspondent - a genuine White Sox fan, a man who attended his first twi-night double header at the Old Comiskey in 1963, who sat behind third base for the 50th anniversary All Star Game there in '83--has been assigned a seat in the Cubs section. Archive 2008-11-25
• I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
• She's a self-professed supporter of prison reform.
• During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
• But concord and harmony were the professed and accepted norm for the conduct of relations.
• He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
• Lord George professed that he had observed the same thing; but then, as he whispered into Mr. Nappie's ear, Mr. Greystock was particularly known as a bashful man. The Eustace Diamonds
• It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
• The second unsuccessful attempt to be professed had a transforming effect on him. Times, Sunday Times
• Never for a moment did I doubt the acceptability to an investment banker of a professed love of money.