Sentence examples for to claim something from inspiring English sources

Some items looted seemed inexplicable - the unwieldy prizes of people who simply wanted to claim something, anything, from the disorder.

"Elections are always a chance to claim something radical is going to happen, but nothing ever happens".

In his Oedipal competition with his illustrious predecessors, Kim Jong-un needs to claim something that is uniquely his own accomplishment.

Were they — are they — ignorant, or just unfathomably, cynically willing to precipitate national, international, and human catastrophe rather than permit Obama to claim something akin to a "victory"?

But there are other American writers (most of them men) who have used sports to claim something a little different: that they understand America.

Real Madrid will try to join Barcelona in the Round of 16 of the Champions League, because heaven forbid one of the Spanish rivals be able to claim something the other cannot.

Even those who have next to nothing, though, manage to locate and claim something in the world that they love best.

Be wide and do not claim something else.

Certainly, it's dishonest to claim that something is authentic when it's not.

But we've already seen that to claim that something is immaterial is not to know any property of it, much less its essence.

It is plausible to claim that something like water could exist without being H2O, but hardly that it could exist without some underlying nature.