Sentence examples for we were proudly from inspiring English sources

Five days into the week, we were proudly visiting our seventh National Trust stately home (Clandon Park, famous for once being the home of the Onslow family, which during the late 17th and 18th century provided the House of Commons with three people who held the title of speaker), when my eldest daughter turned to her grandmother and said, "I have National Trust Syndrome".

It came with a tottering pile of wild leaves, staple fare for the Viet Cong during the American War we were proudly told, a plate of sour star fruit, cucumber and dried green banana slices, and finally a thick sauce made from fermented freshwater fish and shrimp from the rice paddies, chilli, garlic, soy and pineapple.

So we settled for a hike to a nearby cannibal site, where we were proudly shown the slab of rock where victims used to have their heads bashed in and the jungle-chewed shoes of an unlucky missionary who was roasted and eaten generations ago.

But seeing BTTF for the first time on a big screen – at a preview at the Empire in London's Leicester Square, where, we were proudly told, Charles and Diana watched its gala premiere some quarter century before – did not make me regret the days, weeks, months I spent wandering about in an orange gilet, muttering about gigawatts.

We were, proudly, checking in.

We were proudly and loudly anti-war, but damned if that hasn't been replaced by anti-aging.

We are proudly the state that produced Abraham Lincoln".

We're proudly out front in supporting those efforts.

We are proudly 66% Indigenous-owned, which means we are a certified Indigenous business.

If the slave traders had sent our people to the far east of Russia, would we be proudly calling ourselves Siberians?

"Together, we are proudly reaffirming a fundamental truth: that in our nation, we respect people for what they can do, not judge them for what they cannot do," Pelosi said in a statement.