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
Hayden gave two allocution statements during the trial—one for the initial charges and one for the contempt charges Hoffman brought—and used both to give speeches, but didn’t speak about the war dead.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2020
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
I regard this as a perfect allocution of words in regard to the arrangement both for the ear and for the intellect.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
