How to Use oration in a Sentence
oration
noun- She made an oration on the value of art in society.
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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
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That speech has also been touted as one of the greatest orations of the century.
—Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
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Bobby had climbed on the desk in the enormous office to deliver a mock oration.
—Andrew Meier, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
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His star tight end, however, wasn’t quite as comfortable in the art of oration.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 18 July 2023
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His body language delivers an oration of smiles, smirks, scowls, and snarls.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
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The ship’s owner, the Bangladesh Shipping Corp oration, instructed Capt.
—Benoit Faucon and Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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These men do so many things well, but probably their most critical trait is oration.
—Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
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Nixon was polished, smothered in makeup and made to deliver tough-minded orations in a soft voice.
—Timothy Stanley, CNN, 18 May 2017
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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
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For the past year teacher Debra Muniz’s fifth-graders have practiced their oration and performance skills.
—Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, 4 May 2017
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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
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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
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In addition to the dialogue, the entire cast is terrific, with Odom adapting the cadences of Davis’ oration.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
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There are periodic explicative orations about the state of the nation.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
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The text, now delivered straight out, becomes an oration, a summation.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
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The movie came freighted with exposition, along with lengthy monologues and much stirring oration.
—Glenn Whipp, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The agency has received 31 inquiries related to Celgene Corp oration alone.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 May 2018
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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
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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
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Innings prior, manager Bob Melvin had delivered a dugout oration to his listless team.
—Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2021
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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
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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
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