Sentence examples similar to professing oneself as from inspiring English sources

They professed to be as puzzled as he was.

Critics professed it as much when he signed his current 5-month deal to join Paris Saint-Germain, a club in France's Ligue 1, and opted to donate his salary to a children's charity.

It's a disgrace to leave it at that and not put that privilege to good use — even more so when one professes as much knowledge and enlightenment as Whitey does.

"If I could put wheels on my house, maybe I'd leave," said Mr. Paul, who professes as much love for the Manhattan stage as for his suburban oasis.

Nothing bad; a family thing, and she professed to be as excited about how things would be without her as she was about everything else.

But by measure of regular churchgoers and those professing themselves as devout believers, the country remains one of the most deeply Catholic countries anywhere.

Coaching replaced "professing" as the dominant mode of teaching.

After he returned to Paris, the nun, Marianna, wrote him anguished letters professing, as love letters often do, both her undying passion for him and her anger at him for leaving her, often almost within the same breath.

When a scholar as eminent as Hobsbawm professes perplexity as well as pessimism about the future the rest of us will be naturally inclined to share his anxieties.

The order here observed, as well as in the code which it professed to follow as a model, was the order of the writers on the praetorian edict.

Father O'Shea professed vows as a Passionist in 1985.