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:

  • And, as Libby Holden, the campaign's self-proclaimed "dust buster," the manic-depressive idealist who accepts as her mission the elimination of all dirt, Kathy Bates is a dyke tornado.

  • Their self-proclaimed "girl power" feminism is simple-minded--girl power seems to be the right to wear short skirts and still be taken seriously--but it's no more dumb than anything Madonna ever preached.

  • It's the most jittery of periods, both exhibitionistic and paranoid, and David Berkowitz--the self-proclaimed Son of Sam--emerges from the ocean of decadence like a toxic monster, a puritanical avenger.

  • Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed "" questioned.

  • In China, for example, the big story had been the Chinese government's self-proclaimed diplomatic triumphs, such as President Clinton's visit to Beijing and Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visits to Moscow and Tokyo; in Russia it had been the collapse of the post-Soviet financial system and the humiliation of market reformers; in Israel the disintegration of Benjamin Netanyahu's government amid bitter divisions over the Middle East peace process; in South Africa the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on apartheid-era crimes; in Germany the September election that ousted Chancellor Helmut Kohl and brought the Social Democrat Gerhard Schröder to power; in Italy the country's success in qualifying to join the new euro currency; and in France its soccer team's 3-0 victory over Brazil in the final of the World Cup.


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