How to Use professed in a Sentence

professed

adjective

• He is a professed enemy of the king.
• Kirk, for his part, was a professed fan of the episode.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
• His professed reasons do not pass the laugh test.
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026
• But such professed goals have not been realized — far from it.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
• Mulier is a professed fan and student of Versace.
  — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026
• After all, his own contempt for mediums began with his professed hope that some might prove genuine.
  — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• The grant is an extension of Tree’s professed desire to give most of his money away to artists.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 28 June 2026
• The exclusion felt out of step with the professed values of the community.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• Lukashenko, a professed teetotaler, raised a toast of vodka and urged his American guest to drink.
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
• That war has posed a bit of a problem for China’s professed position, however.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2023
• Antonoff, despite his professed aversion to rock-star pretense, rarely answers such questions directly.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Some fleeing toil and craving transcendence, others reaffirming a faith long professed.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
• The terrorist who rammed his car and killed so many people was a professed member of ISIS.
  — NBC News, 5 Jan. 2025
• To reward Rue’s professed desire to swap sides, the cartel threatens her with all manner of violence before slicing her palm open with a knife.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 25 May 2026
• Still, the earl’s professed concern for the preservation of the glories of ancient Athens raises an interesting line of thought.
  — Bruce Clark, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2022
• The truth of conservatism lies elsewhere, in the unshakeable principles that the dispensable litany of professed ideals protects.
  — Allan J. Lichtman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• According to the Times, Meehan, who is married, professed romantic interest in an aide who was decades younger than him.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 23 Jan. 2018
• In short, the goal was to reduce the workforce even more than was happening already, for the professed purpose of protecting American jobs.
  — George Melloan, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• For all his professed solitude, ArrDee raps with an intensity that makes drunken skirt chasing sound like an Olympic event.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• Trump can’t seem to refrain from touting his genius, especially when the subject is dealmaking, his professed speciality.
  — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
• The professed lack of concern reflected in a majority of Hetfield's edge-free deliveries — and in the band's chemistry.
  — Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2017
• Much hinges on whether this professed devotee of Tupac Shakur and 50 Cent can translate that success onto the national stage.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• For the near-decade that Arun and I have been parents, I have been constantly dismayed by how little our lives matched our professed gender-equity ideals.
  — Laura Moser, Vogue, 19 July 2017
• Flaherty took great care in selecting a jury with no professed knowledge of NSC-131.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• After years of professed nomadism, he and Telegram are now officially based in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Darren Loucaides, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• In an era where optimism can be hard to come by, the professed certitude of imminent environmental apocalypse is pretty much the least helpful thing imaginable.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
• Nixon’s professed and late-blooming concern for safeguarding the rights of criminal defendants might be a bit hard to swallow; these were, after all, the Watergate burglars.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
• As the two wander around the museum—one pressuring, the other deflecting—the novel portrays their professed enmity as underscored by the force of attraction, even of love.
  — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
• And both awards show that, despite its professed global ambitions, the Nobel Prize in Literature is still bogged down in Europe.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Oct. 2019
• Chambers found Greene’s behavior noteworthy only in light of her professed Christianity.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026