Example Sentences

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Still, I finally beat my guests this week, so I am claiming a win for that.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

"I finally realized that it is a wonderful song," she says, "and I am claiming it."

From Time Magazine Archive

After relating this fact about my boyhood, malicious people may think that I am claiming to be considered worthy of a panegyric.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

I am claiming no such thing of him.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863 by Lincoln, Abraham

"I am claiming my privilege as an old man," this latter said gayly, "and I welcome you to all our hearts, my beautiful niece."

From The Reason Why by Glyn, Elinor