profess

Example Sentences

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“We profess to be the best in the world in this sport,” U.S. general manager Michael Hill said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

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

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

Many ordinary people profess a lack of interest in the election outcome, believing it will have little impact on their daily lives.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

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