Sentence examples for professing to own from inspiring English sources

And the hypocrisy of a socialism-hating Tea Party leader professing to own a piece of a farm that has been engaged in the nation's most indefensible socialist scheme is just standard behavior for a politician worthy of the calling.

Shopping is "almost like a hobby," said the 36-year-old physician, who professed to owning more shoes than does his wife.

It's brutal but honest – if you don't like the look of someone on screen, you're probably not going to fancy them in real life, regardless of how many matching limited edition Bon Iver LPs you both profess to own.

I don't profess to have a single view of religion and my own perspective is sure to evolve.

Neither entrepreneur professed to have a solution to helping workers stay healthy and productive while doing fulfilling work on their own schedule.

Ronnie owned nothing that he claimed, had no authority to sell, had none of the rights and permissions he professed to have obtained.

The Europeans profess to have few illusions.

"I was like, I can't even save my own brother, how can I be out here professing to save other people's kids?" she said.

Ms. Huffington, 53, went through her own metamorphosis, emerging as an S.U.V.-bashing darling of progressives and now professing to be an independent.

Meanwhile, David Auerbach of Slate suggests that it is simply a predictable and justified response to a press that regularly professes to hate its own readership.

And here I was, all these years later, doing the same thing to my closest friend, a fellow member of the prison skinhead gang my brother, whom I professed to love more than my own flesh and blood after sharing a prison cell with him for two years.