Sentence examples for designated himself from inspiring English sources
Assange designated himself a "spy for the people".
"The commissioner has designated himself as high-holy executioner," Ginsberg said.
Defoe was clearly proud of this work, because he sometimes designated himself "Author of 'The True-Born Englishman'" in later works.
ʿUmar also designated himself ʿamīr al-muʾminīn, "the commander of the faithful," which became an additional customary title for succeeding rulers.
He has a kosher sushi restaurant, runs a private lottery (it is probably this activity that gets him killed and thrown in the canal), and has designated himself president of what he grandly calls the New York Cricket Club.
He was elated to be in the company of Richard Hofstadter, Peter Gay, and Garrett Mattingly, and became so enamored of the city that he designated himself New York Goy.
Professor Jeffries, like Professor Levin, has chosen by his own actions to designate himself a racist.
He has an odd sort of modesty about designating himself a "writer", as if it would sound pretentious.
He designates himself as "Scots-Irish", taking care to distinguish the people of "Greater Appalachia" from "the WASPS of the north-east".
He threw in his lot with the emerging Prague rock scene, and in 1969, joined forces with a popular new band called the Plastic People of the Universe, designating himself their "artistic director".
That chopped-and-screwed self-portrait, the one in which he designates himself as a "loser", also proclaims him a "joker" and, in a complex pun, a rastaquouère: a nouveau-riche foreigner.
