How to Use claim in a Sentence

claim

1 of 2 verb

• Both of them claimed credit for the idea.
• You should claim compensation for the hours you worked.
• No heirs came forward to claim the inheritance.
• New Yorkers proudly claim the artist as one of their own.
• No one ever claimed authorship for the poem.
• He claims a connection to British royalty.
• The terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack.
• The organization claims 10,000 members.
• The deadline to claim a cut of the settlement was last week.
  — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• At least that many would later claim to have been there at the end.
  — Mark Schmetzer, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
• The researchers don’t claim that magnetism is the arbiter of the fate of all worlds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2021
• That means any team can claim him on waivers – and the Cubs did just that.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2022
• Others claimed crews stood idly by as flames climbed the trees and raged through their canopies.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• Some commenters claim that the recipe calls for a tad too much sugar.
  — Dawn Davis, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2021
• On the call, Sanders agreed and Brazile claimed to have cried in anger.
  — Essence.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The note might claim there's a problem getting a package to you.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
• But those worth hearing are the ones who don’t have the power to claim a seat at all.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2022
• Sources claim that the mold of the new iPhone is ready for mass production as well.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
• On the other end of the phone was someone claiming to be Maj.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• Stray dogs are placed on hold for at least four days to give their owners time to come in and claim them.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022
• The deaths do more than claim lives and disrupt families.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2021
• The source claims there wasn't any PDA between the pair.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 26 Oct. 2017
• Both claim it in its entirety and fought two of their three wars over the region.
  — Arkansas Online, 2 Jan. 2022
• Don’t claim multiple pieces of equipment across the gym.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 5 Jan. 2023
• Lo emphasizes that the people who claim your fame is in their hands are not your friends.
  — Zenger News, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
• Yet further studies show the effects of these nudges may not be as large as claimed.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• Tennessee can’t even claim the king of the dorks anymore.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 30 Apr. 2021
• His gun did not claim to be the bedrock of his freedom or the means by which all men would be made to treat him as an equal.
  — Phil Klay, The New Yorker, 11 June 2022
• There are those who live here their entire lives and do not claim to be Arkansan.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 June 2021
• Still, whichever pair of birds returns the soonest to that box next year will claim it.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020

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claim

2 of 2 noun

• All claims must be made in writing.
• You'll need to file an insurance claim to pay for the damage.
• She makes the claim that sea levels will actually go down.
• He made false claims about his past job experience.
• And that wasn’t the first time such claims have surfaced.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 7 Nov. 2019
• No word if the suspect has filed a lost and found claim.
  — Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
• This was not a dissent on the merits of the Texas claim.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2020
• Osman was shot at least three times in the neck, the notice of claim says.
  — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• So the judge was correct, the church states, to reject that claim.
  — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• And, of course, their claims have been verified by the court.
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Beede makes the claim that there’s no clear favorite, yet.
  — Charles King, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2022
• Let woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as in the abstract.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
• But the students have denied and made fun of all of those claims, which are false.
  — Katie Reilly, Time, 26 Mar. 2018
• Who gets hurt and this is people that have legal claims.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2023
• But a dearth of details has raised questions as to whether this was an idle claim.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 5 May 2022
• That claim does not involve the use of any carbon offsets.
  — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
• The White House has strongly denied the claim as false.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• Many works of literary fiction claim to be set in the present day.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The case is far from closed, because there is no way to confirm that claim.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 23 Aug. 2021
• But many of the most attractive claims are still unproven.
  — oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Swift declined to comment on Braun's claims at the time.
  — Chloe Melas, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
• The claim is a hoax, as are similar claims in other states.
  — Rachel Looker, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• Or, the parties can settle with each other at a fraction of the claim.
  — Julie Jason, Jd, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• He’s made several versions of this claim over the last month.
  — Edward McKinley, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2023
• And from our testing, that claim seems to be more than just, well, hot air.
  — Lesley Kennedy, CNN Underscored, 20 Jan. 2021
• The idiocy of this claim dates back almost five years, at least.
  — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
• Gen X has too low an opinion of itself to make so grand a claim.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020
• The lawyer has disputed some of the claims, but had not offered details.
  — NBC News, 11 May 2018
• Carter said White intends to file a civil rights claim.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 9 June 2021
• The town has fought every claim in court but has remained quiet publicly on the feud.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024