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How to use proclamation in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Proclamation means a statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement. Example: “The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.”

Examples of proclamation by meaning

nounA statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement.

  • The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.

More sentences with proclamation

  • Parapegms were used for the publication of laws, proclamations, and the recording of astronomical phenomena or calendar events.From the entry parapegm
  • The pair got in touch after that proclamation and began dating shortly thereafter.2025 August 26, Jenna Amatulli, “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement on social media”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry hard-launch
  • In past societies based on ascribed status, formal rules and proclamations regulated lifestyle conventions.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 2, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry sumptuary law
  • That it had not been overtagged was a bold proclamation that the wall stood within undisputed territory.2012, Andrew Vachss, Blackjack: A Cross Novel, page 12. From the entry overtag
  • There is also the theory that Jezreel was a Baalish name and thus a proclamation of Israel's apostasy.2018, David Stacey, Prophetic Drama in the Old Testament, page 104. From the entry Baalish
  • Here his hand trembled as he set his pen to the proclamation that declared slaves thenceforth and forever free.1994 February 12, Bill Clinton, Presidential Radio Address. From the entry thenceforth
  • Three days after her proclamation Victoria drove down to Windsor.1971, Tyler Whittle, chapter 4, in The Young Victoria, London: Pan Books Ltd, published 1973, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry memento mori
  • However, given the state of actual agreed-on knowledge, central banks’ proclamations of detailed technocratic ability to manipulate delicate frictions is really not justified.2024, John H. Cochrane, “Expectations and the neutrality of interest rates”, in Review of Economic Dynamics, number 53, page 221 of 194–223. From the entry technocratic
  • Arthur had responded to reports of increased violence in the interior by issuing a proclamation that the settled districts be cleansed of Aboriginal people.2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 9. From the entry settled district
  • The jihad proclamation, Pan-Islamic sentiments presenting the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph, and feelings of Muslim solidarity combined to form a potentially powerful mix.2009, R Michael Feener, Terenjit Sevea, Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia, →ISBN. From the entry Pan-Islamic
  • Bruce Nauman uses neon not to advertise a product or service but to make absurd or insulting proclamations, and his fiberglass is heavy and unsleek.1997 September 5, Mark Swartz, “Rebuilding the Material World”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry unsleek
  • Form's silent asking, man's loving speech, the mute proclamation of the creature, are all gates leading into the presence of the Word.1923, Martin Buber, I and Thou. From the entry asking
  • He was interested at once, and also at once made proclamation that all such performances were "hanky-pank," and that he could duplicate any of them.1920, William Dunseath Eaton, Spirit Life: Or, Do We Die?, page 264. From the entry hanky-pank
  • In May, a proclamation was issued specifically targeting Chinese nationals and denying them F and J visas used to attend graduate and postgraduate programs in the US.2020 June 23, Ushma S. Neill, “The hidden health cost of Trump’s visa freeze”, in CNN. From the entry postgraduate
  • The new postcolonial government in Khartoum immediately declared that its national borders matched the tweaked boundaries stipulated in the second proclamation, making the Hala’ib triangle Sudanese.2016 March 3, Jack Shenker, “Welcome to the land that no country wants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2020. From the entry postcolonial
  • But her heartfelt proclamation of love for Sawyer and his reaction to her imminent demise made many of us dig Suliet for the first (and last) time.2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page. From the entry Suliet
  • Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on the north).2011, Paul Turner, At the Supper of the Lamb: A Pastoral and Theological Commentary on the Mass, LiturgyTrainingPublications, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry north
  • Animating these myriad proclamations of independence were the ideas of merdeka (freedom) and of the formless solidarity of the nation, not the controlling, organized authority of the center.1972, Benedict R[ichard] O’G[orman] Anderson, “The Buchō Cabinet and Its Audiences”, in Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and…. From the entry merdeka
  • Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance.1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (7 May). From the entry ballyhoo
  • No proclamation could give more pain than this, if such a thing as pain existed, for, unless widespread and persistent rumor be not entirely false, more than one of Mrs.1907 November 1, The Times-Democrat, volume 45, number 18,094, New Orleans, La., page 6. From the entry lieutenantess

Meaning of proclamation

  1. noun A statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement.

Full definition of proclamation

Questions about proclamation in a sentence

How do you use proclamation in a sentence?
Proclamation is used as a noun. For example: “The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.”
What is a short sentence with proclamation?
“Three days after her proclamation Victoria drove down to Windsor.”
What does proclamation mean?
Proclamation means a statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement.

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