Example Sentences

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“People have been proclaiming for a year and half that the sky is falling, and the sky isn’t falling yet.”

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2019

Granted, users have been proclaiming their frustrations with Twitter ever since the ultra-terse social-media site caught fire nearly a decade ago.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2017

Its officials have been proclaiming for months that the time was nigh.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2015

Actually, even Afrikaner politicians have been proclaiming for some time that change is coming.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is the growing tendency where men think themselves strong enough to do without religious beliefs, when they have been proclaiming that the suppression of Religion will be the exaltation of a purer Morality?

From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Muir, Pearson McAdam