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Example sentences for "declared that"

  • The bishop, with tears in his eyes, declared that he had not the slightest conception how life was to be sustained within him at all.

  • Bold, for the fifth or sixth time, declared that neither he nor any of his friends imputed any blame personally to Mr Harding.

  • To his nephew, Sam Moffett, visiting him one day, he declared that it would take ten men to count the profits from the typesetter.

  • He declared that in a vision at Pittsburg it had been shown to him that he had been ordained a spokesman to Joseph, and that he must see that the church was governed in a proper manner.

  • Yet he had been deeply concerned in the plot for blowing up King, Lords, and Commons, and had, on the brink of eternity, declared that it was incomprehensible to him how any Roman Catholic should think such a design sinful.

  • General Drummond, who represented Perthshire, declared that he agreed with Hamilton and Lockhart.

  • When he declared that he had been happier at Allington than he was at Courcy, she believed him thoroughly, and rejoiced that it should be so.

  • He had said of himself that he was never able to speak quickly in matters of moment; but he would more correctly have described his own character had he declared that he could not think of them quickly.

  • She flirted with the old earl till he declared that he would marry her himself.

  • He declared that he represented the United States as well as England, and that he would bombard the city if there was another American citizen executed.

  • The Spanish garrison, 350 strong, was paralyzed with fear and wished to surrender or leave, but Colonel San Martin, who was in command, declared that he could not surrender.

  • He declared that he was opposed to annexation, and, while many Cubans advocated the establishment of a protectorate by the United States, he could not make up his mind that this would be the best way out of the difficulty.

  • He declared that he had been busy finding money for the latter ever since, and up to nine o'clock, Rogojin having declared that he must absolutely have a hundred thousand roubles by the evening.

  • But he declared that he had only come to them in order to complete his education!

  • He declared that he had seen Rogojin return to the house last night, accompanied by a friend, and that both had gone upstairs very secretly and cautiously.

  • With a cynical knowledge of the weaker side of human nature, he declared that it was too expensive a business to bring men from England to serve in America.

  • Like Washington he declared that it was necessary to get gentlemen, men of education and integrity, as officers, or disaster would follow.

  • He declared that if he could have foreseen all this nothing would have induced him to take the command.

  • Very soon I began to see that I had made some impression upon him, and after the arrival of some of the other merchants, who showed great joy at once more seeing me alive, he declared that he also recognised me.

  • The blow was so heavy that his mind almost gave way, and he declared that he was quite sure that at bottom all women were as wicked as the sultana, if you could only find them out, and that the fewer the world contained the better.

  • Spirit, because you have not owned and declared that notion as your judgment, but on the contrary.

  • Spirit, because you have not owned and declared that notion as your judgment; but on the contrary, all of you that I have ever conversed with, have declared it to be understood of baptism with water, by the direction of the Spirit.

  • Instead of believing that there was a God, his mouth, his life and actions, declared that he believed no such thing.

  • He declared that we could not possibly get home safely unless I did as he told me.

  • But when she brought back a third supply he declared that it seemed made up of water-lilies, and that he must have water that was pure, and not spoilt by willows, or frogs, or rushes.

  • And in three days the wedding was celebrated, and the wedding feast was held, and everyone who saw the bride declared that if anybody wanted a perfect wife they must go to seek her on top of a tree.

  • In the pocket of his overcoat a letter was found, in which he declared that he committed suicide because an unreturned affection had made life unbearable to him.

  • He declared that he would see to it that his friend Daniel should not be robbed.

  • With respect to the south itself, he declared that cotton, which alone constituted one-third of the whole export of the Union, was in danger of losing the market of England if we ceased to take the manufactures of that country.

  • He declared that he would throw a pathos into the subject of agriculture that would surprise and delight the world.

  • In October he declared that he was very homesick, and proposed that Mrs. Clemens and Susie join him at once in London, unless she would prefer to have him come home for the winter and all of them return to London in the spring.

  • At the final war-feast, he declared that three of the enemy would be slain, but he showed great distress and reluctance in foretelling that he would lose two of his own men.

  • After he had reached middle age, he declared that he had a spirit brother among the Ojibways, the ancestral enemies of the Sioux.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "declared that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already intimated; broil them; came forth from the; children were; class meeting; compound microscope; declared himself; declared that; declared the; ducal coronet; experiments were; going concern; humid winters; much labour; other sins; public house; ride away; then with; this unexpected; total failure; used for various purposes; various times; white women; would understand