perorate

Example Sentences

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“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,” Sting said.

From Washington Post

A Premier potent may perorate free, At night, at night!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander

And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

So they perorate and speculate; and call on the Friends of Law, when the question is not Law or No-Law, but Life or No-Life.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas