Possible Clues:

• Claim that it sounds as if it's shelflike
• Claim everything, for instance, eastern
• Claim that that's the East, for instance, and that's the whole of it
• One may claim that it sounds as if it's sticking out
• One might claim that it's sticking out, by the sound of it
• State as a fact without proof
• Does one claim that this is sticking out, by the sound of it?
• Declare without actual proof
• Student, for example, covered in beer, makes claim
• Claim that that's the whole, for instance, of the East