Example sentences for: proclaimed

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

  • He proclaimed that the highest duty of every Muslim was to pursue jihad, and that the highest honor was to die during the jihad.

  • Ferdinand’s return to the throne in 1814 destroyed any hopes left for a constitutional monarchy, while tension between liberals and conservatives led to a century of conflict, marked by the upheavals of the three Carlist wars and the abortive First Republic, which was proclaimed in 1873.

  • An accompanying article traces the evolving debate among historians, several of whom proclaimed Jefferson's purity and must now admit to grave error.

  • Queen Victoria, who in the year 1876 would add the title Empress of India to her roll of honor, proclaimed that the Indian Civil Service would be open to “our subjects of whatever race and creed. ”

  • The neighbouring Austrian Habsburg rulers, fearful that Vienna would be the Ottoman empire’s next conquest, proclaimed themselves rulers of Hungary, thus creating a buffer zone between themselves and the Turks.


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