Explore Professes through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Professes in a sentence
Professes meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of profess
Using Professes
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of profess
- In the example corpus, professes often appears in combinations such as: professes to, he professes, professes his.
Context around Professes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Professes
- In this selection, "professes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, population, fervidly, gemma, islam, redemption and allegiance stand out and add context to how "professes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include administration and professes to be and birds gemma professes that she. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "professes" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with professes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The other beautifully professes Jesus as Savior. (7 words)
Not everyone that professes redemption does so from their heart, some are sons of perdition. (15 words)
Be suspicious when someone you haven’t met in person professes their love to you. (15 words)
Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor who has been a veritable pain in the neck of the current administration and professes to be a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has however dropped a hint that of where the next scandal will come from. (43 words)
And in some vignettes, when Chang recounts actions and events he’s now not proud of, he deems them worth “correcting” — but instead of addressing those he has harmed outright, he fervidly professes his guilt, then opts to write over them. (41 words)
Even while strange sounds and mysterious happenings follow the young teacher, he persistently professes his disbelief in all things supernatural, until riding home one evening, Ichabod comes face to face with Sleepy Hollow’s most feared and famous ghost. (39 words)
Fourthly, do the minister and a private company have the privilege of drafting clauses which undermine and reduce to ineffectiveness the very laws the contract professes to honour and base its existence upon? (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Allowing Islamic leaders to gain influence in a country where of the population professes Islam could be perceived as a threat to the secular government’s hold on power.
Not everyone that professes redemption does so from their heart, some are sons of perdition.
When asked by Ebuka how she got to know that Deji’s love for her might not be genuine, she revealed that Deji always professes his love to her.
Canada is quieter, and more restrained, sometimes a bit lonely, but she professes to love Almonte.
Flags of Russia and Transnistria which professes allegiance to Moscow flutter by a monument to 18th century Russian military commander Alexander Suvorovin in Tiraspol.
And in some vignettes, when Chang recounts actions and events he’s now not proud of, he deems them worth “correcting” — but instead of addressing those he has harmed outright, he fervidly professes his guilt, then opts to write over them.
At the start of the documentary “Scheme Birds,” Gemma professes that she never wants to leave.
Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” plumbs deeply emotional territory, showing how wrenching a divorce can be even for a couple that professes to still love one another.
Now, in response to questions from a U.S. senator, the IRS has acknowledged that’s true but professes it can’t change anything unless it is given more money.
Be suspicious when someone you haven’t met in person professes their love to you.
Fourthly, do the minister and a private company have the privilege of drafting clauses which undermine and reduce to ineffectiveness the very laws the contract professes to honour and base its existence upon?
Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor who has been a veritable pain in the neck of the current administration and professes to be a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has however dropped a hint that of where the next scandal will come from.
The other beautifully professes Jesus as Savior.
These are not the values of justice and economic equality that SLU professes to uphold.
Those were indecent conduct by any government especially one that professes to uphold the tenets of Islam.
About 50% of the population professes Islam (Nigeria belongs to the Organization of the Islamic Conference), 40% - Christians and 10% - adherents of local religious beliefs.
And the attitude which he professes appears to imply that the other has no standing in England whatever.
As a result, the senate now professes ignorance about the artworks that have shaped Berlin’s visual identity in the eyes of the world.
But one opposition leader who professes support for the Venezuelan democratic system, who seems to believe that power should be won at the ballot box and not through street violence, seems to be Henri Falcon.
Even while strange sounds and mysterious happenings follow the young teacher, he persistently professes his disbelief in all things supernatural, until riding home one evening, Ichabod comes face to face with Sleepy Hollow’s most feared and famous ghost.
Common combinations with professes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- professes to 13×
- he professes 6×
- professes his 5×
- professes her 4×
- that professes 3×
- population professes 2×
- professes islam 2×
- she professes 2×
- which professes 2×
- professes that 2×