How to Use oration in a Sentence

oration

noun

• She made an oration on the value of art in society.
• With jokes, sly smiles and a gift for oration, this version of Mickey can win over any jury.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
• That speech has also been touted as one of the greatest orations of the century.
  — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Bobby had climbed on the desk in the enormous office to deliver a mock oration.
  — Andrew Meier, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
• His star tight end, however, wasn’t quite as comfortable in the art of oration.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 18 July 2023
• His body language delivers an oration of smiles, smirks, scowls, and snarls.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
• The ship’s owner, the Bangladesh Shipping Corp oration, instructed Capt.
  — Benoit Faucon and Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• But in the real world, oration is to filibuster as essay writing is to texting.
  — Gail Collins New York Times, Star Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• The prepared oration must be the original effort of each contestant and must be 8-10 minutes in length.
  — Carroll County Times Staff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Nov. 2019
• These men do so many things well, but probably their most critical trait is oration.
  — Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
• Nixon was polished, smothered in makeup and made to deliver tough-minded orations in a soft voice.
  — Timothy Stanley, CNN, 18 May 2017
• It’s hard to imagine this workmanlike oration igniting a fist fight, let alone the civil war that follows it.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• For the past year teacher Debra Muniz’s fifth-graders have practiced their oration and performance skills.
  — Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, 4 May 2017
• Mr. Francis recounts how when asked to cut the ribbon to open a flower show, Gladstone read for weeks about flora and delivered a lengthy oration.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Colbert had his work cut out for him in trying to analyze roughly 90 minutes of the president’s oration in just an hour.
  — Tracy Brown, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• In addition to the dialogue, the entire cast is terrific, with Odom adapting the cadences of Davis’ oration.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• There are periodic explicative orations about the state of the nation.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
• The text, now delivered straight out, becomes an oration, a summation.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
• The movie came freighted with exposition, along with lengthy monologues and much stirring oration.
  — Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• Kandi starts to cry thinking about little Blaze at home without her, while Porsha uses her powers of oration to point out Kenya’s hypocrisy to the other ladies.
  — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2021
• That approach means the movie is freighted with exposition, along with lengthy monologues and much stirring oration.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The defense begins presenting its case today in what promises to be an extreme contrast to the House managers' two-day video-rich oration.
  — Washington Examiner Staff, Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2021
• Before long, drummer Allen was issuing torrents of sound, the two-horn recap leaving little doubt that this was going to be an evening of grand oration.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2017
• Michele Calantropo, Berhe’s lawyer, said on July 1st, during his closing remarks, a four-hour oration before a mostly empty room.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 13 July 2019
• The agency has received 31 inquiries related to Celgene Corp oration alone.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• After subjecting Wilford to a five- or ten-minute oration on everything that was wrong with science-writing today, Gell-Mann tried to dissuade him from writing the piece.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2013
• There’s so much white noise constantly coming at us that the high-profile speech (think Barack Obama’s oration on race in America) doesn’t make much difference anymore.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
• Innings prior, manager Bob Melvin had delivered a dugout oration to his listless team.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2021
• The first-term mayor used a powerful oration to elicit one of the most raucous standing ovations from more than 7,000 people at the Texas Democratic Convention on Friday.
  — Jeremy Wallace, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024