allocution

Example Sentences

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Durst declined to give an allocution for the crime.

From Fox News • Oct. 14, 2021

But at his Friday sentencing hearing for Floyd’s murder, Chauvin’s allocution lasted just 36 seconds.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2021

He offered a law professor’s allocution on the subject of foreign-born citizens’ eligibility for the American presidency.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016

Heinrich Himmler himself, the Reichsfuehrer of the SS, expressed this notion in an allocution set out in detail.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

I regard this as a perfect allocution of words in regard to the arrangement both for the ear and for the intellect.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony