Sentence examples for were professing from inspiring English sources
verb
To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
Even BJP partisans were professing to expect 60.
Yes, actual humans were professing to feel badly that the poor, disrespected Masters would be sullied by Tiger Woods's return.
It is now left with a decimated team, one even rival N.B.A. coaches were professing sympathy for and whose owner Dan Gilbert provided the most scathing words of all about James's departure.
Continue to push for full repeal, which would wipe away the benefits that these Americans — the very same people Republicans were professing to speak for in expressing outrage over the web site — are now enjoying?
WHILE Hollywood executives were professing before a Senate committee not long ago to be shocked, shocked, that somehow R-rated slasher movies like "I Know What You Did Last Summer" were being test-marketed to 9-year-olds, the news arrived from London that Tracy Emin, the popular British artist, had unveiled "I've Got It All".
They were professing their unwillingness to remain second class citizens, or to sit on the sidelines.
Different types of paganism were professed in the 4th century, and equally diverse were the forms taken by the support given to Julian.
Sure, some of our Founding Fathers were professed Christians.
Yet in fact, the companies are professing dismay.
Still, leaders in both political parties are professing optimism.
He, too, is professing patience, but there are signs he may be antsy.
