PROCLAMATION in a Sentence

Learn PROCLAMATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
25 example sentences for PROCLAMATION, such as:
1. proclamation appeared about two months ago.
2. The proclamation had passed through exactly.
3. But the time has at last come for a new proclamation.
4. There is a royal proclamation of the birth of the prince.
5. But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PROCLAMATION
proclamation
 n.  the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice
 n.  a formal public statement
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The fires and shouting in the enemy's army were occasioned by the fact that while Napoleon's proclamation was being read to the troops the Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
2  The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigirin talks.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
3  "That's not he himself, that's the father of the fellow who wrote the proclamation," said the adjutant.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
4  proclamation appeared about two months ago.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
5  The proclamation had passed through exactly.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
6  If he is accused of circulating Napoleon's proclamation it is not proved that he did so," said Pierre without looking at Rostopchin, "and Vereshchagin.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
7  With reference to commerce, the proclamation to industrious workmen and to peasants evoked no response.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
8  There were no industrious workmen, and the peasants caught the commissaries who ventured too far out of town with the proclamation and killed them.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
9  But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I.
10  The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV.
11  The emperor also confers on him some public mark of his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
12  But the time has at last come for a new proclamation.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  The President of the United States issued a proclamation that it be not tolerated in the territories over which he has jurisdiction.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
14  This proclamation having been made, the heralds withdrew to their stations.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  After he had been summoned twice by sound of trumpet, and proclamation of the heralds, it became necessary to name another to receive the honours which had been assigned to him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  There is a royal proclamation of the birth of the prince.
2  An official or authoritarian declaration; a proclamation or an edict.
3  A bloody civil war followed the proclamation of an independent state.