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Example sentences for "orator"

Lexicographically close words:
oratione; orationem; orationes; orationis; orations; oratores; oratoric; oratorical; oratorie; oratories
  1. If the orator uses the word "donkey," down goes the word "donkey.

  2. If the orator uses the word "damnable," down goes the word "damnable.

  3. If the orator begins by saying that Mr. Chamberlain is rather like a violoncello, the reporter does not even wait to hear why he is like a violoncello.

  4. If the orator says that the Premier is like a porpoise in the sea under some special circumstances, the reporter gets in the porpoise even if he leaves out the Premier.

  5. His brow grew black and his voice had the vibration of the great orator or the great actor.

  6. For hours and hours he spoke, with the perpetually changing accents of the great orator who has so studied his art that it has become nature.

  7. Luther was recalled, and the orator thus, addressed him: "Martin, you have not spoken with the modesty which became your office.

  8. A few days sufficed to wear off these first impressions, as always happens when an orator shrouds the emptiness of his arguments in high sounding phrases.

  9. He studied Cicero and Demosthenes thoroughly, and learned from them both the art of the orator and the duties of the citizen.

  10. Some distinguished orator was usually employed to preach on this great occasion.

  11. At the city gate a municipal orator greeted her Majesty with an address in Latin, and then from a gilded globe, resting over the gate, a little fellow, representing an angel, descended and delivered to the queen the keys of the city.

  12. You mean Demosthenes, sir; and, gentlemen, I beg you to remark that this orator was a republican: but there can be no question that liberty is favourable to the encouragement of all the higher qualities.

  13. But the orator took heart, considering that his facts were undeniable.

  14. We had a good appetite for it, as we had breakfasted very lightly before leaving Cape Town.

  15. But I do not like to hear a preacher principally try to be either orator or artist.

  16. Who shall say that the hod-carrier has not done as much for humanity as orator or poet.

  17. And the great orator must reflect the deeper soul of his hearers.

  18. As for the orator himself, he held up one maimed hand and leaned over the edge of the platform, and his undistinguished face glowed with the white light of a great passion within.

  19. It was not like any other speech I ever heard, for it was no mere giving out by the orator of ideas and thoughts and feelings of his own.

  20. The practising orator with bent head mumbled as he walked.

  21. The rehearsing orator glanced up to discover that the director and the sunny-faced brown and gray man he called Governor were smoking above the plates of their finished luncheon.

  22. This orator and hero was a naturalized Englishman, and commanded an American regiment in the Mexican War.

  23. John Romeyn Brodhead, who had just returned from the Hague with the treasures of New Netherland history gathered during his mission, was the orator of the day.

  24. At Rome, an orator cried daily: 'Carthage must be destroyed!

  25. Victor Hugo was unquestionably a great orator, or rather I ought perhaps to say he exhibited the powers of a great orator on special occasions.

  26. In conclusion, the orator exclaimed, 'My son!

  27. Montalembert assured him that he was as great an orator as he was a writer, and that if the doors of the theatre were closed against him, the tribune was still available.

  28. Hugo had a wonderful gift of language, and he was an orator when his heart was thrown into his subject, and he pressed into its service all the wealth of rhetoric he had at command.

  29. The poet-orator again pleaded the same cause in January, 1879, but his proposal was coldly received.

  30. Passing on to the great question of the day, that of labour, the orator observed: 'The political question is solved.

  31. In tones which could be distinctly heard throughout the vast arena, and with much eloquence of gesture, the orator said: 'What can equal the grandeur of the spectacle before us, which history will record!

  32. On this occasion they had set up as candidates for the consulship Catilina himself and Gaius Antonius, the younger son of the orator and a brother of the general who had an ill repute from Crete.

  33. With justice men commend Caesar the orator for his masculine eloquence, which, scorning all the arts of the advocate, like a clear flame at once enlightened and warmed.

  34. No doubt the opposition thus acquired a well-known name, a man of quality, a vehement orator in the Forum; but Lepidus was an insignificant and indiscreet personage, who did not deserve to stand at the head either in council or in the field.

  35. And notwithstanding the good reasons given in by some of the university why this charge was fitter for an orator than a sophister, there was chosen for this purpose our Master Janotus de Bragmardo.

  36. An orator and a poet, he adorned the language whose principles he had fixed as a grammarian.

  37. Who (to see him and hear him thus) would take him for the greatest orator and statesman of the day?

  38. It is a melancholy proof of the decadence of ability and eloquence in that House, when Peel is the first, and, except Stanley, almost the only real orator in it.

  39. Critics also should bear in mind that an orator does not speak chiefly to them or for their approval.

  40. Mr. Everett's reputation as an orator is very great, and I was especially anxious to hear him.

  41. Whereupon again the orator took up his tale.

  42. There's a reform orator there to-day and a barn-burners' camp-fire.

  43. Here the audience roared and cheered, and the Orator got a fresh start.

  44. Standing on one side of the stage, and partly overshadowing it, was a tall foxglove, which seemed, as the evening breeze gently swayed it hither and thither, to offer exactly the sort of accommodation that the orator desired.

  45. And, for a few peaceful moments, the orator brooded, frowningly, over the quotation.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.