• They talked far more to the media, sponsors and loved ones - professing eternal devotion - than to each other (clocking up 5000 minutes on the phone).
• Throughout the years consumers have professed their lifelong love of America's number one mustard.
• Pupils at Paxcroft Primary School are preparing to send and receive cards in the run-up to Saturday, when thousands of people across west Wiltshire will profess their true feelings to loved ones.

Synonyms

• Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
• This is precisely because it is a multi-religious country with substantial segments of the population professing various religions like Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and Buddhism.
• It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one's faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries.

Synonyms

• He earned his doctorate in Roman history at the Sorbonne, and has professed that subject for many years at the University of Paris.
• While Schama professes history at Columbia University, he was born in London, was educated at Cambridge, used to teach at Oxford, and has a long-term deal with the BBC.
• Foolish us with our medieval notions of professors professing away, surrounded by their students, all engaged in an effort to understand the world we live in and change it for the better.