Example sentences for: self-proclaimed

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

  • The WP lead details much local ferment about the way the Seattle police handled the anti-WTO demonstrators and the NYT inside has an excellent up-close on some of the self-proclaimed anarchists thought to have been responsible for much of the violence and destruction on Seattle's streets.

  • It told the riveting story of how I--"perhaps the only self-proclaimed conservative journalist devoted to digging up stories rather than writing editorials," author of a best-selling attack on Anita Hill, and "the star reporter at the [ American ] Spectator"-- came to break the Troopergate story, and how Troopergate begat Paula Jones, and how Paula Jones begat Monica Lewinsky.

  • Recently Bill Gates received a pie in the face from what I assume were self-proclaimed enemies.

  • A group of self-proclaimed humanists--including selfish-gene theorist Richard Dawkins, novelist Kurt Vonnegut, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, and DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick--have come out in defense of cloning human beings.

  • Marilyn Manson, who lends his adopted name to his band, is a minister in the Church of Satan, the self-proclaimed "Antichrist Superstar," and the perfect cartoon fiend.


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