Example sentences for: proclaimed

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

  • After Britain seized Guadeloupe, Victor Hugues, commissaire of the Convention, wrenched the island back, proclaimed slavery abolished, and set about guillotining the old-guard colons.

  • One widely quoted 1987 study emanating from the Brookings Institution proclaimed that seat belts--to all appearances, a low-cost and effective way to keep people from flying through the windshield--actually failed the test of cost/benefit analysis.

  • They proclaimed Japan’s mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America.

  • After the victory, Count Afonso Henriques proclaimed himself the first king of Portugal, making it one of the first nation-states in Europe.

  • The palace balcony from which Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht proclaimed his doomed “Socialist Republic” in 1918 was added to the front of the Staatsrat (Council of State) building on the east side of the square, while the monstrous bronze, glass, and steel Palast der Republik, once, not so very long ago, the seat of East Germany’s parliament, replaced what remained of the royal residence.


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