speechmaker

Example Sentences

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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2020

“Most big speeches start with the politician, the leader, the speechmaker, giving a sense of what they think,” a former Party official, who worked for May at the time, told me.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But, ultimately, what type of speechmaker is Obama?

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2017

Then there came wild applause and Margaret presently arose and raised her hand for silence after the manner of the true speechmaker.

From Molly Brown's Senior Days by Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis)