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Example Sentences

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Brook loved to declaim that he had no answers, because there are no answers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

“The folding type of this cooling device became accepted in China during the Ming dynasty,” Mr. Trebek might declaim, as competitors raced to buzz in with the reply, “What is a fan?”

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2020

You may use this page to declaim loudly, recite verse, or pursue areas of freewheeling, off topic discourse.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2020

In “Spectacular” he rescues a middling segment called “Downtown Addy’s,” a “Downton Abbey” sendup in which Harlem Renaissance figures like Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston and Adelaide Hall gossip and declaim with mock-aristocratic fatuousness.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020

His douceurs were nought but such as an artillery marshal might declaim.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson