Example Sentences

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Proclaimed The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Nov. 3: “It will undoubtedly be the finest building of the kind on the coast.”

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Proclaimed Howard: “It’s early in the season and by the time the season ends, nobody’s going to remember how we started. They’re going to be happy with how we finished.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

Proclaimed Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot, “It puts us in an elite class and forever and ever will set us apart from other cities.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2017

Proclaimed Premier Zhao Ziyang during his triumphant tour of the U.S. in January: "China has opened its door and will never close it again."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the king, with a hope to change the future, Proclaimed this law to be: That, if in all the land there was kept one spindle, Sure death was the penalty.

From On the Tree Top by Curtis, Jessie