Example sentences for: professed

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

  • Columbine had the great hook: kids, especially the unfortunate girl who professed her belief in God and became an instant martyr.

  • In July of this year, I received a phone call from a young woman who professed to be my daughter.

  • Beneath a flimsy undergarment of professed remorse, she exposes a psyche built on blame-shifting, self-interest, and moral indifference.

  • If we consider the right-wing politicians and media people on your list as actually believing their professed ideology, which I'm not sure they all do, I think yes, orthodoxers of one sort or another are often fighting the return of the repressed: a stop-me-before-I-divorce-again kind of a thing.

  • Described as an insecure follower with no personality and with limited knowledge of Islam, Bahaji nonetheless professed his readiness to engage in violence.


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