Sentence examples for profess about from inspiring English sources
The phrase "profess about" is not correct in standard written English
It is typically used incorrectly, as "profess" does not require the preposition "about."
Example: "He professes his love for art."
Alternatives: "declare" or "state"
An obstinate heroism, and one so stereotypically masculine that it works doubly in affirming all it is we profess about men and how their behavior should be: stony, sturdy, resolute.
In a couple of weeks, I was in the classroom again, professing about the good life, and the place of courage within it.
Learn what each religion professes about the meaning of life and death; pain and pleasure; procreation and suicide.
In this research, the extent to which research findings are really about what they profess to be about, i.e. validity of general conclusions (Saunders et al., 2007) rested on the internal consistency between explanatory relationships, contextual parameters, and data generated from multiple sources (Denzin & Lincoln, 1994).
Mets players profess optimism about the weeks ahead.
What politician doesn't these days profess concern about the sharp elbows of American capitalism?
But even Linux enthusiasts profess ambivalence about the government's interest.
In interviews, many trustees profess ignorance about anything beyond their immediate duties.
After all, what shareholder would want a chief executive who can plausibly profess ignorance about where the company was headed?
On the Republican side, a majority of voters continued to profess ignorance about the candidates in the race.
We may profess clarity about our allegiance, but novelists particularly cannot escape a concern with the moral.
