sermonize
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This upcoming Easter Sunday, he intends to sermonize on which one would prevail.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
His family attended weekly Mass to hear McGuire sermonize and took part in his spiritual retreats, events where McGuire began to acquire a cult-like following.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2019
With a zealous quickening, Brooks begins to sermonize, not about his own soul but the country’s.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
Hill has a salty beard, smiling eyes and booming voice to sermonize about the suffering he sees so often in the Shenandoah Valley.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2018
My grandmother was the only white person who ever heard W. D. Fard sermonize, and she understood less than half of what he said.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
“Haha You Clowns” isn’t like the old “Davey and Goliath” or “South Park,” which purposely sermonized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The Rev. Charles Cannon, pastor at St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, sermonized about the temporariness of the community’s losses.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
By the time he returned, nearly all of the churches that the Porter family had sermonized in along Lakeview Avenue and Union Avenue were rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
One after another, religious leaders of all faiths sermonized next to a home-made altar with Pope Francis’s image on the front, along with people carrying beatified images of Cesar Chavez, Mahatma Gandhi and Dorothy Day.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2015
As for myself, I have sermonized quite enough for a man of my stamp.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
In other moments, though, modern lingo and mismatched performances make “Manhunt” feel uncomfortably like “Drunk History,” particularly when characters are either crying or sermonizing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
As a character, Miss Liza Jane combines the hauteur of opera diva Jessye Norman and the sermonizing wisdom of Maya Angelou.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Sir John seems to have been dearly fond of sermonizing.
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson
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