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Example sentences for "declaring that"

  • He surprised me inexpressibly by declaring that my sister's foreign husband was dressed superbly, and looked the picture of prosperity.

  • But looking at the matter with such knowledge as she had at present, she did not even yet feel herself justified in declaring that Mr. Gibson had offered his hand to her niece, and had been refused.

  • She had been very outspoken to her uncle, declaring that she by no means intended to carry herself as a disgraced woman.

  • There is here one letter to you, declaring that if you will comply with her demands, she will not annoy you, and declaring also her purpose of marrying some one else.

  • She had said a great deal to him about her performances, declaring that he would find them to be neither vulgar nor disagreeable.

  • Rebelling against this, declaring that even at Puritan Grange he would be master of his own actions, he rushed down into the hall, took his hat, and walked off into the town.

  • Paris, declaring that he had uttered sentiments favourable to the Jansenists being at Chalons, and unfavourable being at Paris.

  • He had the courage to show he was worthy of this confidence, by representing to the King the ignominy of declaring that marriage, and drew from him his word, that never in his life would he do so.

  • Sir Piers Luband, on being released from his dungeon, offered his services to King Robert, whereupon the English laid all the blame of the loss of the castle upon him, declaring that he had betrayed them.

  • There were those who condemned Mr. Gladstone's speech, declaring that it might disrupt the peace of Europe, but there were many others who thought that the sooner peace secured at such a cost was disturbed the better.

  • Prince Milan issued a proclamation to his people, declaring that, while professing neutrality, the Sultan had continued to send military forces of savage hordes to the Servian frontier.

  • And, when he was still further urged by the cavalier, he bluntly broke off the conversation by declaring that "his own territory covered all on this side of Flanders"!

  • Poor Bobus was in utter despair, and went raging about, declaring that he had been a fool ever to expect anything from Kencroft, and at last he had to be turned out of the sick-room.

  • He had of course been the first best man thought of, but he fought off, declaring that he could not afford to miss a single lecture or demonstration.

  • Armine had been thinking of offering himself as Allen's successor for a year with Sir Samuel; but two days' experience as substitute convinced him that Allen was right in declaring that my Lady would be the death of him.

  • The Queen denied this letter flatly, declaring that it might have been written with her alphabet of ciphers, but was certainly none of hers.

  • She is altogether changed in mind, and come round to her first love for this Lady, declaring that it is all her Lord's fault that the custody was taken from them, and that she could and would have hindered all this.

  • When Jacob lost his Benjamin, he cursed the land of Misraim, declaring that it should know no rain; Joseph on the other hand blessed it, asserting that it should never want water.

  • Numbers pressed forward to offer him hospitality; he blessed them, and bade them stand out of the way, declaring that Al-Kaswa would halt of her own accord at the predestined spot.

  • The Arabs infinitely despise the stuff sold at Alexandria and Cairo, declaring that it is fit only for cows.

  • The Stoics tried to get over the difficulty by declaring that if a man could conquer all his personal desires he would become, by doing so, happy, and would therefore have achieved the only end at which a man can rationally aim.

  • This comes from the man who always took glory to himself in declaring that the "toga" was superior to helmet and shield.

  • In the second he falls again into despair, declaring that everything is over.

  • We have a fragment of Cornelius Nepos, the biographer of the Augustan age, declaring that at Cicero's death men had to doubt whether literature or the Republic had lost the most.

  • He insisted, declaring that he would take no nourishment till he had received the cross.

  • He responded by declaring that he wished a like brand might mark his lips, and that he might bear the shame of it all his life, if only the vice of blasphemy might disappear from his kingdom.


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


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