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

In vain does Lafayette fret, indignant; and perorate and strive: Patriots in the passion of terror, bellow round the Royal Carriage; it is one bellowing sea of Patriot terror run frantic.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

But here he'll pose and perorate, A Brutus vain and voluble.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 by Various

So little was he supposed to have spoken seriously that another, of whose ceasing to perorate there is no prospect, characterized his criticism in language so strong that it cannot well be repeated. 

From Lost Leaders by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)

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