The phrase "make claim to" is correct and usable in written English.
It generally means to assert that one has a right or title to something. For example, "She made claim to the estate after her father died."
But also because they can make claim to being a port in a storm.
Bicyclists must make claim to their share of the roadway, but not at the expense of those on the sidewalks.
"She actually can make claim to a unique kind of cultural achievement, which is to prepare Americans for the increasingly tangled relationship we were going to have with China for the next 70 or 80 years".
Our puzzle is this: what must be the nature of pleasure in beauty if the judgments we base on it can make claim to correctness?
However, what we can say for sure is that it is definitive of pleasure in beauty that it licenses judgments that make claim to correctness.
The Washington Post said it 'could make claim to be a Great American novel', whilst the Times described it as a 'magnificent sprawling epic'.
"We would not make claims to hospital patients that massage releases toxins.
If Mr Byers is determined to meddle in competition decisions, he should not make claims to the contrary.
Some are tame and some are a bit wilder; all, in some measure, make claims to art.
Abkhazia, in Georgia, and Transdniestria, in Moldova, fall somewhere in between.Both Abkhazia and Transdniestria can make claims to special political status, if not to independence, on historical grounds.
Aside from China and the Philippines, three other countries in Southeast Asia — Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam — make claims to islands in the sea, as does Taiwan.
