How to Use pronouncement in a Sentence

pronouncement

noun
  • He made some important pronouncements on government policy.
  • This pronouncement, of course, will be met with a groan by fans.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • After that, there was no grand pronouncement to the staff as a whole.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2022
  • The last point above is the proverbial knock-your-socks-off pronouncement.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • What the women thought of Paul, about his pronouncements or their own place in the world, the Scriptures do not say.
    Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 26 June 2019
  • Their uncle has heard the pronouncements from the peace talks in Doha.
    Fatima Faizi, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That pronouncement held true in a bad way for Hagans against Evansville.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 12 Nov. 2019
  • As the heat built over the first week of August, no politician made a pronouncement or issued an alert about the heat.
    Zoya Teirstein, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
  • That interview, and others, are the way that ... as Chuck says, the best way to fact-check some of the false pronouncements about tariffs.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 5 Dec. 2018
  • So don’t look for broad pronouncements from any of the candidates.
    Mercury News Editorial, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The confidence to make such a pronouncement, and the Indigos’ trust in her, were earned over time.
    al, 29 May 2020
  • Why make the pronouncement now, from Pelosi's standpoint?
    NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Tony Oursler was just a kid when Rosenberg made this pronouncement.
    Frank Rose, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The new pronouncement does not have the force of law, and schools committed to the practice can continue to use it.
    NBC News, 3 July 2018
  • With this stunning pronouncement, Parker was off to the races.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Coach Mike McCarthy, though, stopped short of a pronouncement.
    Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Bush's pronouncement on Thursday puts lie to that idea.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The East Bay Times should create a running list of Trump’s pronouncements and fantasies.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • Nvidia cofounder Jensen Huang made that pronouncement this time last year.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That Zen pronouncement doesn't make the day-in/day-out drudgery of aging any easier.
    Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The odd thing is that Ip makes another grand pronouncement that’s hard to credit.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • Nor are there are any flashbacks to life in the old country or wistful pronouncements of a better future in the new one.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Jones added that the most remarkable part of the report was the pronouncement on fossil fuels.
    David Vetter, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • The hospital, though, wasn’t so sure about that pronouncement.
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The current Supreme Court has received a shower of abuse from both left and right for its far-reaching pronouncements.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2024
  • In years past, this conference has been all about big pronouncements.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • But one of the least productive ways to act on hard feelings is to make grand pronouncements that can't reasonably be put to use.
    Carolyn Hax, al, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But one of the least productive ways to act on hard feelings is to make grand pronouncements that can’t reasonably be put to use.
    Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • That pronouncement is sinking risk assets, from tech stocks to Bitcoin to crude.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • There are pronouncements on tariffs, taxes, and other policies that might not sit well on the country’s stomach long-term.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2024

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