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
In the other room the woman twists the dial, and voices sermonize from the speaker.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“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
Catholic priests sermonized against the Molly Maguires, taking instructions from Philadelphia Bishop James Frederick Woods, who excommunicated them.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2018
First the Presbyterian, then the Methodist, the Baptist, even the Spiritualist expounded and sermonized upon the several beauties of the Protestant faith.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee
And Hall took his own sermonizing to heart.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
But Perkins hops so quickly from one outrageous death to another that his screenplay leaves little room for rumination amid his constant fatalist sermonizing.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025
“Blood-soaked soil that my great-grandmother fled,” she said at one point, in sermonizing tones.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
No need to wait on a sermonizing dispatch from the Great American Lion of Letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
"The author scarcely had a thought of sermonizing his readers, but each of these little stories presents a moral not easily overlooked, and whose influence lingers with those who read them."
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
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