eloquent
Example Sentences
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The oil executive is an eloquent speaker whose TV appearances entertain the president, and the men chat about Venezuela and other topics.
He’s just so sweet and dear and eloquent.
From Los Angeles Times
The long shots in “Battleship Potemkin” are equally eloquent—ships at anchor in the dusk, a line of mourners stretching as far as the eye can see along a harbor wall.
This eloquent expression painted a vision of America as a beacon of democracy and freedom on which the whole world could rely, and it informed the entire post-World War II global order.
From Salon
Perhaps the most eloquent is the naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau, who wrote “man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
