How do you use the word "claim" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "claim": You have no claim on me. May I see your claim tags?

Claim Meaning

/kleɪm/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA demand of ownership made for something.

nounThe thing claimed.

Sentence Examples

You have no claim on me.

May I see your claim tags?

He still hopes to win his claim against unfair dismissal.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

None

Antonyms:

forfeit

CEFR Practice Quiz

Did the scientist ____ that her new theory explains dark matter?

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He decided to ____ that he was the rightful owner of the property.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Italic *klāmāō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative. See also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlōwan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō, “to call, convoke”), κλέδον (klédon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकल (uṣaḥkala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Bailey, in using accents, felt that he was 'directing to their proper pronuntiation' and showing 'the Orthoepia of the English Tongue' (title page, Dictionarium Britannicum, 1730 edition). The claim is ridiculous." — 1946, Esther K. Sheldon, “Pronouncing Systems in Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries”, in Language, volume 22, number 1, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 28:

"The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!" — 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

"Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."" — 1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2:

"We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire" — 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:

"Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed." — 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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