Example sentences for: proclamation

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

  • The city has drawn Christian visitors, sometimes heavily armed, ever since the proclamation of the “Holy Land” and development of the first Christian sites for pilgrims in the fifth century.

  • The pope issued a proclamation, expressing the hope that "a great harvest of faith will be reaped on this vast and vital continent" and arguing that "Asia is thirsting for the living water that Jesus alone can give."

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • Socialist before the proclamation of the Weimar Republic, the town led the counter-assault which put an end to the right-wing Kapp Putsch of 1920 (see page 18).

  • Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."


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