oration
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Examples of oration in a Sentence
Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
Each wine was accompanied by an entertaining oration from Filippo Marchi, a wine expert.
—Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
The show is continuing the legacy and history of oration in a conversational style that is effective and needed.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
This zany sports parody, made during the Frat Pack's peak, has everything: hilarious commentators, inspiring oration from Lance Armstrong, and more groin hits than a marathon of America's Funniest Home Videos.
—Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2023
The movie came freighted with exposition, along with lengthy monologues and much stirring oration.
—Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
The film highlights the importance of oration and its form of history to keep traditions and culture alive as both Cimone and Annece come from an Afro Caribbean and American heritage.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 20 Dec. 2023
For me, storytelling has just been an evolution of my inherent gifts, just a natural calling, a natural teacher, natural oration.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
How Frederick Douglass crafted his image through images and photography
Where some onlookers see a modern tribute to a consequential abolitionist and presidential adviser renowned for his fiery oration, others see an insult.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Latin oration-, oratio speech, oration, from orare to plead, speak, pray; akin to Hittite ariya- to consult an oracle and perhaps to Greek ara prayer
circa 1504, in the meaning defined above
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“Oration.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oration. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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