orating

Example Sentences

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A week and a half after Tom recorded himself orating, he got a voice mail saying he was a winner.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

In our mind’s eye, we have a vision of an exhausting marathon in which a brave senator has the gumption to stand up and keep orating until his or her colleagues see the point.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2021

“He was a rousing, orating nationalist for the British Empire. But he believed the populace must be informed and educated to see through cheap rhetoric.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2017

Hakawatis—storytellers—have historically been an integral part of Middle Eastern culture, orating popular myths and fables to audiences in cafés and public squares.

From Economist • Jun. 28, 2017

He was the sort you would expect to find perched on a detergent box, orating to a crowd of lunching businessmen and amused students, shouting, "Mars for the Martians, Venus for the Venusians!"

From Bad Medicine by Sheckley, Robert