PROFESS in sample sentences

To be professing his love for me onstage one minute and then thinking I was making out with Javi the next?

Colleen Hoover -- Slammed

Self-professed proponent of the 4 Fs: find ’em, feel ’em, fug ’em, and forget ’em.

John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines

Some women swore that they would not speak to her; others professed fascination.

Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

He calmly professed his complete confidence and certainty that McMillian was guilty and that he should be executed as soon as possible.

Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy

She never professed such things.

Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

He just asked politely whether anybody would like to swap his soup for their bread, and the two girls on the far side of the table—who professed themselves "wheat intolerant"—nearly threw their rolls at him.

Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

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I looked at the address and professed ignorance.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

These soldiers were white, but they professed to fight for the freedom of another race as well as of their own.

James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865

One can only speculate upon Von Niemand’s later career, but if he was at all like his chief, Rudolf Hoss, and the SS in general, he had styled himself Gottglaubiger—which is to say, he had rejected Christianity while still outwardly professing faith in God.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

HUNDREDS IN THIS [NEW YORK] COLONY ARE ACTIVE AGAINST US AND SUCH IS THE WEAKNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT, (IF IT CAN DESERVE THE NAME) THAT THE TORIES OPENLY PROFESS THEIR SENTIMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE ENEMY, AND LIVE UNPUNISHED.

Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains

I thought that Jamie perhaps felt a small twinge of regret, though he also professed himself relieved.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

"Because is wrong to profess faith if I don’t observe properly.

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

You, a self-professed cynic, are positing that the squirrel is a superhero.

Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

You’ll remember this as the same theater where I professed my love for Cate and much later, after I’d thawed out, saw her with her fiancé.

John Corey Whaley -- Nogin

We proclaim you Death, my mother, and profess your resurrection.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls

Boxer professed not to be sorry for what had happened.

George Orwell -- Animal Farm

The gratitude that he gave me an edge by professing his love for me in the interview.

Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

You give them what they profess to like in public.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

"The little baggage hath witchcraft in her, I profess," said he to Mr. Dimmesdale.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

Then you profess ignorance of the crime with which you are charged?

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

The German was sent for but professed to know nothing of the matter, nor could any inquiry clear it up.

Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

So far as I knew, my mother, though not a professed atheist, had never given a thought to religion in her life.

Albert Camus -- The Stranger

This man pursued Miss Havisham closely, and professed to be devoted to her.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

He never professed to have skills greater than his subordinates.

Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.

Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

One was professing to have seen the Martians.

H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

—Of this whale little is precisely known to the Nantucketer, and nothing at all to the professed naturalist.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

But Duncan declined the charge, professing his readiness to serve as a volunteer by the side of the scout.

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

This passion Celine had professed to return with even superior ardour.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

With some guilt, he thinks of Zabi and Lemar back in San Jose, who have long professed their dislike of their Afghan names, who are fast turning into little tyrants, into the imperious American children he and Nahil had vowed they would never raise.

Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

Is my return, my rise to power, not the very thing they professed to desire for so many years?

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

One of the individuals he professed to admire greatly over the last two years of his life was a heavy drinker and incorrigible philanderer who regularly beat up his girlfriends.

Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

Without being kind, he was sentimental, and Dick’s affection for his parents, his professed concern for them, did indeed touch him.

Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood

They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

Certainly he disliked him, certainly he professed a contempt for him.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister.

Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver’s Travels

I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won.

Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians? and how do we doom one another to the devil, while all profess to worship the same Deity, and to expect the same salvation.

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

And while she knew that statistics show most people who profess faith in Christ do so at a young age, it was Colton’s passionate insistence on Christ’s love for children that gave Sonja fresh energy for our kids’ ministry.

Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

When Penelope speaks again, she tells the beggar that she has a dream for him to interpret-the dream of her pet geese killed by an eagle who professed to be Odysseus.

Homer -- The Odyssey

Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

From this room, many such dogs have been taken out to be hanged; in the next room (my bedroom), one fellow, to our knowledge, was poniarded on the spot for professing some insolent delicacy respecting his daughter—_his_ daughter?

Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

O earth! bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event, If I speak true: if hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief!

William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

Without scruple—without apology—without much apparent diffidence, Mr. Elton, the lover of Harriet, was professing himself her lover.

Jane Austen -- Emma

"You profess to read minds?" she asked.

Frank Herbert -- Dune