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orate

How to use orate in a sentence

The surest way to get yanked off the stage — any stage — is to clear one’s throat and begin to orate.

Do you remember how you always used to let me orate to you when I had anything on hand for the rhetoricals?

WHEAT AND HUCKLEBERRIESCHARLOTTE MARION (WHITE) VAILE

But the captain, facing them, his arms about the delighted Bos'n, positively declined to orate.

“Orate pro anima,” or “of your charite pray for the soul of ——” were usual inscriptions.

They'll orate over him, and they'll get frightfully cross for a fortnight, and then they'll do nothing.

CHANGING WINDSST. JOHN G. ERVINE

Do not try to be somebody else; be your own self and talk, never "orate" until you can't help it.

From nineteen hundred and five on I did orate my opinions to a group of advanced students.

Just as the sugar orators were preparing to orate, a man with muddy boots pushed through the crowd and entered headquarters tent.

But it would be for the elect- orate, not for the woman suffragist, to decide that question.

I don't want to orate, but a man of your position has so much to lose; you can't afford to do it.

JENNIE GERHARDTTHEODORE DREISER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985