professing

IPA: prʌfˈɛsɪŋ

Examples of "professing" in Sentences

He steadfastly turns down requests to do interviews in English, professing not to be able to communicate well enough.
Then, and only then, will the United States have any credibility in professing a desire for democracy in the Middle East. wiley Says:
Here, I. Christ warns his disciples to take heed of hypocrisy, and of cowardice in professing Christianity and preaching the gospel, ver.
Knowing that it is less surprising to find strongly pluralistic beliefs in a title professing to draw it's insights from the Christian tradition.
Bushee from the University of Colorado, sent a letter to the committee demanding a retraction of his name and professing his strong support of the war from the beginning.
And they said unto him, We can -- Here we see them owning their mother's petition for them as their own; and doubtless they were perfectly sincere in professing their willingness to follow their
What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing what is wrong.
Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural."