Sentence examples for as he professed from inspiring English sources

(But maybe he was just, as he professed to be, a diplomat).

Mr. Chirac at times looked extremely uncomfortable even as he professed his eagerness to explain himself to the people.

But even as he professed a perhaps inflated sense of purpose, he called himself "emotionally fractured" and a "wreck" and said he was "self-medicating like crazy".

But officials of the Bush campaign cited the flurry of activity on the Democratic side as evidence that Mr. Gore might not be as wedded to campaign finance reform as he professed.

If you could stomach — no pun intended — Rex Ryan's performance Wednesday as he professed indignation at how his nice little Jets franchise has transformed into a frat house run amok, it was eventually possible to see the dark humor in it all.

Wednesday's installment of President Obama's running campaign to raise the taxes of millionaires featured a group of wealthy people who agree with him, standing at his side as he professed that the idea is popular among the gilded elite from Warren Buffett on down.

"I guess he's not as much of a Luddite as he professes," Mr. Kass said.

As depressed as he professes he is, he constantly creates things.

Or, as he professes, were they simply a patriot's effort to fight the corruption crippling his country?

Such localism as he professes has been forced on him by Europe's new wave of centrifugal politics.

"Polygamist as he professes to be," fumed Ann Eliza Young, restive wife No. 19, "he is, under the influence of Amelia, rapidly becoming a monogamist, in all except the name".