How to Use proclamation in a Sentence

proclamation

noun
  • The President issued a proclamation which freed the slaves.
  • Does the rest of the LP live up to such a daring proclamation?
    Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Jesus Christ, not the Church, must be the center of the Catholic proclamation.
    George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the best proclamations of love come about in the most casual of settings.
    Sandra Gonzalez, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The proclamation lays the blame for the problem squarely at the feet of lawmakers.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 4 June 2024
  • On the first day of spring training, Sixto Sanchez made a proclamation.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • In the video, the proclamation sets off a flurry of activity from the crowd.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Afterward, from a balcony at the palace, the proclamation will be read to the public.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The names of all of Swift's albums are woven into the proclamation, too.
    Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The other side of the sign, visible to those in the city center, hints at why the first proclamation is so urgent.
    Valerie Hopkins Emile Ducke, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The city is flying one again this month, after a proclamation from the mayor.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Listen to each proclamation of mirth and melancholy, love and hate.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • For the first time, the entire event will be televised, making this the first public reading of the proclamation.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2022
  • After the proclamation and a short speech by King Frederik, he was joined by his wife and their four children on the balcony to wave to the crowds.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 24 June 2024
  • There will be a proclamation, a balcony scene, a king’s speech and a procession.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Alexa didn’t get a big splashy launch event, or come with a bunch of grand proclamations about being the future of anything.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The proclamation was read out in the medieval City of London and at other locations across the U.K.
    Jill Lawless, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Hamlin was presented a key to the city and the mayor read a proclamation in his honor.
    Visual Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, a proclamation of the new reign will be made at Christiansborg Palace on Jan. 14.
    Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Jan. 2024
  • These days, those sorts of proclamations tend to feel more specious than ever.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The proclamation had been in the works for more than a month, Kaptain said at this week’s Elgin City Council meeting.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2022
  • The proclamation of a Friday-free, four-day workweek is a sham—at least for the majority of us.
    Lindsay Tjepkema, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • City officials will host a proclamation reading, raise the Juneteenth flag and present awards at the event.
    Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2022
  • Falconi noted in the proclamation that the barber shop was the first business in Brunswick Plaza.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022
  • There were prayers, parades, singing, and public readings of the proclamation.
    Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 13 May 2024
  • The proclamation came amid her announcement of a new state program to pay for two cameras in each of the city’s more than 6,400 subway cars.
    WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • When Hunt made that bold proclamation, the Chiefs were a floundering franchise that hadn’t won a playoff game in more than two decades.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2022
  • But coach Kevin Willard cautioned against making grand proclamations off of the outcome.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The governors made the direction in accordance with a proclamation from the White House.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Lee Jae-myung, the head of South Korea's opposition , has described the proclamation of martial law as unconstitutional, according to the .
    Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

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