How to Use declaim in a Sentence

declaim

verb
  • The actress declaimed her lines with passion.
  • The speakers declaimed on a variety of issues.
  • The legendary politician was declaiming, a hand reaching out to snatch at the air.
    oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Issues are raised, debated and declaimed, often at the top of the cast's lungs.
    Ricahrd S. Ginell, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The pastors who speak at those have nearly half an hour each to declaim, and the speakers bring many of their own congregants to the host church with them.
    Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Cho is no amateur, but even in its opening moments, the show declaims rather than evokes.
    Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Near the start of the novel, Frankenstein attends a lecture in which the professor declaims on the promise of modern science.
    Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2017
  • In the opening Chorale, a sinewy viola and then a keening clarinet declaimed as if from a pulpit, while spacious chords rang out from the other four players.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Here is Brooks, declaiming about what followed the failure of U.S. campaign finance reform.
    Richard Lipez, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Intimacy, Serafino declaims, is the lifeblood of her work.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Both emperor and empress compose classical poems to be declaimed to the court several times a year.
    The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Places come into view as do people who read, deliberate and declaim uptown and down, largely in Manhattan though also in the Bronx.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • These were then declaimed by a speech synthesizer, with the androidal American accent that has thereafter become his trademark.
    Martin Rees, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • These were then declaimed by a speech synthesiser, with the androidal American accent that thereafter became his trademark.
    Martin Rees, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2018
  • At the opening ceremony of this year’s conference, the ballroom at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown was buzzing with fresh-faced capitalist devotees sipping wine and beer and declaiming their love of Rand’s work.
    Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
  • One soprano declaims these words while another sings settings of poems by Rebecca Elson, who tells of a similar struggle, in more oblique terms.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
  • In this sense, all fiction — and this has been roughly true since the early nineteenth century, when the burgeoningly popular, still somewhat novel novel form, was declaimed as a woman’s art — is chick lit.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Green’s script is truffled with cosmic aphorisms that the lovers declaim and that a villainous conductor named the Unnamable (the great character actor Denis Podalydès) spews forth with wicked glee.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Chatty to a fault, these gangsters rarely kill without preamble, declaiming everything from philosophy to Fauvism and Buddhism to Brexit.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, miamiherald, 14 Feb. 2018
  • These narcissists declaim their insecurities and grievances in the language of personal essays.
    Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Introduced while smugly declaiming his masturbatory fantasies to his high school English class, Sidney is barely bearable.
    Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The design team — especially Jason Sherwood (sets) and Linda Cho (costumes) — gives us haunting underwater vignettes involving a giant turtle and declaiming clams.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Mr. Huston’s performance, however competent, is no match compared with Heston’s heaving, oratorical gravitas, which gave even casual remarks the ring of Scripture declaimed from a mountaintop.
    Stephen Holden, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
  • North America, Gilpin grandly declaimed, had a national, unified personality.
    Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
  • The contrast is striking with state television documentaries featuring bossy, relentless narrators declaiming upbeat slogans.
    The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020

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