orotund

Example Sentences

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Its orotund prose certainly differs from the lean muscularity of the Second Inaugural or the elegiac concision of the Gettysburg Address.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

In the title story, for instance, the narrator combines the orotund diction of a robot with little comets of slang, “super nice,” “killing it,” in a way more manufactured than anything in “Tenth of December.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022

But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2019

Regardless of their vast intelligence, Buckley and Vidal performed on ABC not to gratify intellect but to signify it, like the orotund televised spokesman for classical-music highlights.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 17, 2015

It may, of course, vary in pitch, but tones of low pitch that are intended to be impressive are most suitably rendered in orotund quality.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education