Sentence examples for claiming it for from inspiring English sources

Despite its proud and defiant buoyancy, the Jar had recognized ol' Natty for the foul, tangled knot of misdirected idealism it really was, and was claiming it for its own.

All of this explains a lot about my resistance towards the holiday that celebrates a man taking a piece of country away from its native inhabitants and claiming it for his own.

The ability to imagine someone else's pain or oppression is different to claiming it for oneself.

Two people engaged in a bidding war, with the winner claiming it for $40.

One might have thought that the communists should be flinging the "materialist" label at their capitalist enemies, rather than claiming it for themselves.

Most fantastically, the novel has an extended subplot about the Soviets establishing a permanent base on the moon, and claiming it for themselves.

Dove identified a latent "out" group and claimed it for its brand.

It made him think of spring, knowing that a barn swallow would be along to claim it for its nest.

"My husband claims it for me.

I had yet to claim it for myself.

It was subsequently visited by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1768), who claimed it for France.