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Example Sentences

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Tempering democratic rhetoric with aristocratic restraint, he rises above the divisions of debate to deliver the funeral oration when Athens buries its dead sons in the war’s first winter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“Avoid emotional oration and loud, impassioned pleas. A well-reasoned and logical presentation without resort to histrionics is easier for listeners to comprehend.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

The movie came freighted with exposition, along with lengthy monologues and much stirring oration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2024

Armstrong's writing is consistently sharp and poignant, but Kendall's funerary oration gives wings to this heavy scene.

From Salon • May 22, 2023

The opening words of Antony’s funeral oration in Julius Caesar are, covertly, an ethos appeal par excellence: a positioning of the speaker with relation to the crowd.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith