speechmaker

Example Sentences

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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2020

“Most big speeches start with the politician, the leader, the speechmaker, giving a sense of what they think,” a former Party official, who worked for May at the time, told me.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“The question is: Will Ryan just be a good speechmaker or be a good policymaker?”

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2016

Through all his life Washington was no speechmaker.

From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Ford, Paul Leicester