How to Use professed in a Sentence

professed

adjective

• He is a professed enemy of the king.
• The days of the dominant post player have long since passed, the self-professed dinosaur said.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2018
• The exclusion felt out of step with the professed values of the community.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• What’s different is that this time, reporters felt taken aback that the self-professed scholar would stoop to such low depths.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 15 June 2017
• Like a would-be date's professed height or age, there is no way to verify the vaccination status of the dating app users.
  — Zeke Miller, Chron, 21 May 2021
• After only a few months in office, the self-professed common man is still riding high in the country’s opinion polls.
  — Alexa Díazstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Is that a way to get us to almost pity him for his professed inadequacies as a husband and father?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2020
• After all, his own contempt for mediums began with his professed hope that some might prove genuine.
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• Still, the earl’s professed concern for the preservation of the glories of ancient Athens raises an interesting line of thought.
  — Bruce Clark, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
• But the media mogul has also faced criticism — and legal action — for his professed views.
  — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2022
• Caughman was black, which made him a target for his professed killer, James Harris Jackson, 28, of Baltimore.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017
• That war has posed a bit of a problem for China’s professed position, however.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2023
• Following through on his professed desire to look at gun laws certainly wouldn't come without cost for Trump.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2018
• Plenty of money for these two self-professed style influencers to maintain their eye-popping wardrobes.
  — Sarah Gidick, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2017
• In short, the goal was to reduce the workforce even more than was happening already, for the professed purpose of protecting American jobs.
  — George Melloan, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• For the near-decade that Arun and I have been parents, I have been constantly dismayed by how little our lives matched our professed gender-equity ideals.
  — Laura Moser, Vogue, 19 July 2017
• At $99.95 a pop, the sky's the limit — providing plenty of money for these two self-professed style influencers to maintain their eye-popping wardrobes.
  — Sarah Gidick, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Aug. 2017
• Hermanus Whale Cruises Hermanus is the self-professed whale-watching capital of the world, and there's a huge industry built around the marine mammals.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2018
• According to the Times, Meehan, who is married, professed romantic interest in an aide who was decades younger than him.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• Flaherty took great care in selecting a jury with no professed knowledge of NSC-131.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• After years of professed nomadism, he and Telegram are now officially based in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• Over time, Douglass came to see the futility of moral suasion and the usefulness of turning the professed ideals of the Constitution to his purposes.
  — Jabari Asim, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
• What these high-profile former staffers have in common is a professed loyalty to President Trump.
  — Libby Casey, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Strengthening these programs are among the professed aims of the Biden administration.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• And while Donald Trump is a professed teetotaler, his daughter and son-in-law might appreciate the 1,200-bottle wine cellar.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 12 Dec. 2016
• For all his professed solitude, ArrDee raps with an intensity that makes drunken skirt chasing sound like an Olympic event.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• And both awards show that, despite its professed global ambitions, the Nobel Prize in Literature is still bogged down in Europe.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Wheeler’s professed interest in bay cleanup with an $82 million funding cut in one bay program under Trump.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
• The professed lack of concern reflected in a majority of Hetfield's edge-free deliveries — and in the band's chemistry.
  — Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• Human rights activists have accused the US government of casting aside its professed commitment to promoting democracy and human rights abroad in favor of shoring up US influence in the region.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023

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