speechmaker

Example Sentences

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She’s a reasonably good speechmaker, but she’s no Obama — by which I mean Michelle Obama, whose impassioned appeal dominated the first night’s proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2020

Hoffa, by contrast is different—he is the opposite of silent—not only is he a literal speechmaker at the rostrum, he’s a running-off-at-the-mouth talker in private, in one-on-ones and “business” meetings.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Jefferson gravitated to the radical Whig faction led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, but distinguished himself as a brilliant political writer rather than speechmaker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

It’s as if he can be a sage on deadline, whereas, left more space in which to lose himself, he sounds like a professional speechmaker in a hurry.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2015

A political speechmaker occupied the bandstand one night, and they stood for an hour in the midst of the crowd, listening vaguely.

From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth