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[dih-klaym] / dɪˈkleɪm /


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Still, Martin has her constantly running about, moving tables, jumping on those tables to declaim in court, shouting over music, fiddling with her clothing and juggling props.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

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

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

Losing the jury or the case is less important than showing yet again, that they are irrelevant constructs in a world in which he declaims his innocence and millions still believe him.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2024

“I’ve been painting up for 25 years,” the 50-year-old declaims, his voice building into a steady rumble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

“I don’t need anyone,” Paolo declaims, in one of several lines destined to find their way to a midnight quote-along screening of the film.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

“It shouldn’t be easy/But it shouldn’t be hard/You shouldn’t be a stranger in your own backyard,” he declaims on “Shouldn’t Matter but It Does.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

“Fellow Dominicans!” he declaims in a grainy voice.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials,” Emerson declaimed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As Weaver's Prospero declaimed "Come forth, I say," Hayley sprang from her seat and rushed the stage with Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from Tyneside.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

“Oh Allah make it easy for them to reach there, and bless us with the death of a martyr,” he declaimed, his voice reverberating through the mosque’s loudspeakers.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Like many, he once declaimed the rampant use of exclamation marks but later defended them, going so far as to make a case for the Interrobang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

Isaac declaimed a prayer of his own devising.

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

With Richards’s gnarled, withering guitar lines and Jagger drawling and declaiming, there’s no mistaking the band behind “Foreign Tongues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

He gradually awakens to the need to fight Saruman, declaiming phrases of weary resolution like “Let them come” and “So it begins.”

From New York Times ● May 5, 2024

But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman




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