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sermonize

[sur-muh-nahyz] / ˈsɜr məˌnaɪz /


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This upcoming Easter Sunday, he intends to sermonize on which one would prevail.

From Washington Post Apr. 7, 2020

His family attended weekly Mass to hear McGuire sermonize and took part in his spiritual retreats, events where McGuire began to acquire a cult-like following.

From Seattle Times Dec. 30, 2019

With a zealous quickening, Brooks begins to sermonize, not about his own soul but the country’s.

From The New Yorker Apr. 29, 2019

Hill has a salty beard, smiling eyes and booming voice to sermonize about the suffering he sees so often in the Shenandoah Valley.

From Washington Times Nov. 12, 2018

My grandmother was the only white person who ever heard W. D. Fard sermonize, and she understood less than half of what he said.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Haha You Clowns” isn’t like the old “Davey and Goliath” or “South Park,” which purposely sermonized.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 16, 2025

The Rev. Charles Cannon, pastor at St. Hilary’s Episcopal Church, sermonized about the temporariness of the community’s losses.

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2022

“This is a driver for the entire United States economy,” O’Rourke sermonized to a crowd packed into the banquet hall at the Social Club in Edinburg.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2018

When Arnold, “rapt in devotion or vibrant with exhortation,” sermonized in Rugby chapel, it is said that he “propounded the general principles both of his own conduct and that of the Almighty.”

From Washington Post Jan. 30, 2018

As for myself, I have sermonized quite enough for a man of my stamp.

From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon

But Perkins hops so quickly from one outrageous death to another that his screenplay leaves little room for rumination amid his constant fatalist sermonizing.

From Salon Feb. 21, 2025

In other moments, though, modern lingo and mismatched performances make “Manhunt” feel uncomfortably like “Drunk History,” particularly when characters are either crying or sermonizing.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2024

At times, Christian movies can feel formulaic and forced, sometimes preferring sermonizing to storytelling.

From Washington Times Aug. 24, 2023

This week, former NFL player Emmanuel Acho, sermonizing while staring into a Fox Sports 1 camera, even tried speaking directly to Tagovailoa.

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2022

Or I might publish, to the dismay of every one intimately concerned, a denunciatory sermonizing book.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer




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