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Example sentences for: claim

How can you use “claim” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Nor can it claim the voting representation in Congress that, in America's historical tradition, has been considered the essential trade-off for taxation.
They claim the support of "police" and the enmity of "criminals."
Regarding the claim of a bomb, see Michael Woodward interview (Jan.
Judges, however, claim merely to be interpreting words and phrases in statutes either in the same way that anyone else would or in a way that effectuates the legislature's intent.
All words are coinages, the editors claim, and they resist charting relations between their entries and an “authorized” or canonized list of words.