How to Use oratory in a Sentence

oratory

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  • Has the Academy still not learned how to bring such oratory to a close?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The bald and burly Foster was Edwards’ equal in neither style nor oratory.
    — Kevin McGill, Star Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Her oratory rose and fell in cycles, then climbed to a final crescendo.
    — Kevin Lee, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Like the oratory, the monument to Lee was hyperbolic—in this case, in scale.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
  • There will be no stirring oratory about how America doesn't have red or blue states.
    — John Blake, CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
  • So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses, and then went on to lead a life that got him into history books.
    — Frank Niceley, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Mario Cuomo’s charisma and oratory could carry the day in his heyday.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Biden’s impressive oratory capped off a four-day exercise in sleight of hand.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But that same skill could prove a problem in the top job, in which oratory and charisma are important traits in order to communicate a message to the public.
    — Emiko Jozuka, Joshua Berlinger and Will Ripley, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • But Truss’ public performance to date has been somewhat stiff and formal, short on the kind of stirring oratory at which both Blair and Johnson excelled.
    — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • American politicians have not been notable for the power of their oratory.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • That same day at Gettysburg, Edward Everett, famed for his oratory, spoke for close to two hours, while Lincoln took scarcely more than two minutes.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • Mythical scenes form as if spoken to life from some ancient oratory.
    — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That oratory milestone appears in Rustin, but from the perspective of the title character.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • One of the most compelling examples of the use of free speech on behalf of the greater good is that of Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave whose writings and oratory helped inspire the abolitionist movement.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Many describe him as stoic, someone whose voice rarely wavers and whose oratory won’t long be remembered.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Sofia De La Cruz won a state championship in original oratory.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But if Churchill's thesis on the power of oratory is correct, then history is likely to assign outsized credit to the role Zelensky's words have played.
    — Bill McGowan and Juliana Silva, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Where both violence and oratory are involved, convincing ardor is needed, but not yet in their reach.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In its place now, in the high altar of the oratory, hangs a copy commissioned in 2009 and painted from photographs of the original, a plucky facsimile that looks nothing like an authentic Caravaggio.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Maybe the most brilliant two-minute oratory in television history.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2022
  • The creeds or the oratory that ought to invigorate us seem exhausted, whether derived from Marx, Freud, or capitalism (newly perverse).
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • His oratory seemingly gets through to Al, but Demarcus follows it with an order for his staff to lock the doors so that these three wayward diners will be forced to eat the potentially poisonous blowfish his chef has prepared for them.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • German politicians, Merkel is aware, have reason to beware soaring oratory.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Teddy Roosevelt drew hundreds of thousands for his July Fourth oratory.
    — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 July 2023
  • But overall, the emphasis was less on soaring oratory than the nuts-and-bolts of legislation, funding and, for states beyond the original 13 colonies, ways to link the Semiquincentennial to their own histories.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 3 July 2023
  • The team used a drone to survey the area, took detailed measurements and studied the architectural details to reconstruct the original plan, which consisted of three rooms as well as an adjacent oratory, or chapel.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
  • Gilbert, for instance, enjoyed sending up the polysyllabic pomposity of the English oratory of his day.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • To reconstruct the cave dwelling’s original layout—made up of three rooms and an eastern-facing oratory, or chapel—the team drew on precise measurements, a drone survey and an assessment of architectural details.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2021
  • Zelensky’s visit to the United States was intended to take advantage of his powerful oratory to sway wavering voices.
    — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023

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