allocution
Example Sentences
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Durst declined to give an allocution for the crime.
From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021
But at his Friday sentencing hearing for Floyd’s murder, Chauvin’s allocution lasted just 36 seconds.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2021
He offered a law professor’s allocution on the subject of foreign-born citizens’ eligibility for the American presidency.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
Heinrich Himmler himself, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, expressed this notion in an allocution set out in detail.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2015
This allocution is perhaps the greatest doctrinal utterance of the Pontificate of Pius IX.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
