sermonize
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Johnson said he didn’t mean to sermonize but it’s clear he’s the kind of artist who sees the stage as a pulpit and the arena as a church.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
This upcoming Easter Sunday, he intends to sermonize on which one would prevail.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2020
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
John — called Preacher because he sermonized chickens — was the odd child out.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 17, 2020
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 Lee, Minnie Mary
It’s gripping and informative without sermonizing — everything a great documentary should be.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
In all the military formations, colorful uniforms, singing of hymns and sermonizing, I looked for elements such as that one — the art and drama of this rare royal state funeral and procession.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
Ms. Haart’s relentless sermonizing can seem abrasive at times.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
No need to wait on a sermonizing dispatch from the Great American Lion of Letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2021
Have you done sermonizing?" cried the Duchess, good-humoredly—"really, you would make an admirable parson; and a far better one, I am sure, than the reverend gentleman whom we wheedled out of the five hundred dollars.
From Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life by Thompson, George
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