sermonizer

Example Sentences

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But more often, Mr. Biden, who has a volatile temper — and was known as a long-winded civic sermonizer during his Senate years — visibly struggled to suppress his anger.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2020

Creflo Dollar and Bishop Long preached the same hopeful message, in slightly different ways, but Dollar remained my favorite sermonizer.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2013

This may be satisfying for the sermonizer, but it won’t solve Europe’s problems—and it won’t save the euro.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2011

In him, the pagan warred with the Puritan, the scandalizer with the sermonizer, and perhaps never more fiercely than in his most durable play, The Country Wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then her teacher calls her an incorrigible little sermonizer, and she laughs at herself.

From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Macy, John Albert