Example Sentences

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Yet it simultaneously professes anxiety about an Asian American who has decidedly not stood apart from American institutions and culture: After graduating from Yale Law School, Wang clerked for two Supreme Court justices.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

He leaves, but she runs through the streets to chase Conrad - soundtracked by Taylor Swift's Out of the Woods - and professes her love on his train and says she chooses him.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

The editor professes to find Anne’s writing “genuine and spontaneous,” but describes reviews of the 1947 Dutch edition as “over-ecstatic.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2025

The series professes in a title card to be “a true story.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

“I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,—‘I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë