orator

Example Sentences

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In reality, Newsom is a talented orator — often long-winded, he admits, but a politician who projects passion and offers straight talk, especially when speaking extemporaneously.

From Los Angeles Times

An undisciplined orator, McCarthy can land in rhetorical trouble, as he did in a recent speech in Tennessee, where he joked about wanting to hit Pelosi with the gavel when he becomes speaker.

From Washington Post

Mr. Popeil was 16 when a Chicago newspaper called him “a silver-tongued orator.”

From Washington Post

In the years just before his death, Frederick Douglass, the great Black orator and abolitionist, spent a two-year stint as the American consul to Haiti.

From Washington Post

In a reading of handwritten vows, Mr. Moore’s skills as an orator shined.

From New York Times