Example sentences for: proclaiming

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

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • Remember Keefer, the writer-character in The Caine Mutiny , who spends most of his time proclaiming the superiority of moral principle to personal loyalty (just like Upham) and then gets humiliatingly told off in the end?

  • My copy, carefully preserved, has the jacket, twice proclaiming the title as Manuscript and Proofs .

  • The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.

  • Interestingly, the piece belies its own headline proclaiming that the "U.S.


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