How to use "claimed" in a sentence

To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it

"If you gave him a deposit, and if he gave you this address and claimed he lived here, then it's not very likely this Sol Fitzpatrick even owns any boat in the first place."

Andre claimed to have discovered a way of transmitting solid objects through space

As soon as Sir F was dead, Sir P claimed the title, Blackwater Park, and the land