perorate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,” Sting said.

From Washington Post

A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

Feuillans, including almost the whole Constitutional Respectability of France, perorate nightly from their tribune; correspond through all Post-offices; denouncing unquiet Jacobinism; trusting well that its time is nigh done.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

But here he'll pose and perorate, A Brutus vain and voluble.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various