eloquent

Example Sentences

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Yet Leo found—his son tells us with eloquent understatement—that “some Germans managed to remain decent, when decency could be very dangerous.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

There was eloquent solo playing in the orchestra, and extravagance from the solo singers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

A disheveled man sick of endless waiting launched into an eloquent tirade ending with Samuel Beckett -- "You know what happened in the story of Godot? He never came."

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

The court heard that Laura and Brian Webb gave an eloquent and sobering account of the sheer loss and damage that has been done to their family since the death of Aaron.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

How eloquent he had been that night, how sweet the rhythm of his words as he went to the very edge of emotional outrage but never crossed over into it, never lost control.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger