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Example sentences for "make speeches"

  • Nevertheless I can only say, as I did five minutes ago, it is not proper for me to make speeches in my present position.

  • In many of the cities of the country clubs were organized for political discussions, and persons in public life were pressed to make speeches or lectures on the topics of the day.

  • The women of that day were trained more for the culture and ornament of the house, more to knit stockings and weave home spun than to make speeches on woman's rights.

  • I continued until the day of election to make speeches, not only in Ohio, but in several of the states.

  • He was born to make speeches in political gatherings, and not to argue complicated legal questions in the courts.

  • Hence, "smart" young men, in rude villages, early learned to make speeches in social and political meetings.

  • It is very easy to make speeches down at a place like that.

  • Lord Silverbridge asked whether the candidate was not too fat to make speeches.

  • If he begins at forty to make speeches, or to win races, or to breed oxen, he can yet live a prosperous life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drink offerings for the; make bold; make ends; make head; make itself; make laws; make less; make matters; make merry; make mistakes; make money; make music; make one; make others; make shift; make smooth; make themselves; make things; make this; make use; make war; make water; make white; see below; soda dissolved; that law