ORATION in a Sentence
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45 example sentences for ORATION, such as:
1. I thought my oration very good.
2. He was asked to deliver an oration at the meeting.
3. It is not necessary to set down the rest of the oration.
4. She asked me the other day if I knew what your oration is to be about.
5. Many other orators spoke after the excited nobleman, and all in the same tone.
2. He was asked to deliver an oration at the meeting.
3. It is not necessary to set down the rest of the oration.
4. She asked me the other day if I knew what your oration is to be about.
5. Many other orators spoke after the excited nobleman, and all in the same tone.
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Meanings and Examples of ORATION
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oration
n. an instance of oratory
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1 The supper things cleared away, Gerald resumed his oration, but with little satisfaction to himself and none at all to his audience.
2 There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks's parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration.
3 She asked me the other day if I knew what your oration is to be about.
4 I thought my oration very good.
5 He had delivered a melancholy oration previous to his funeral, and had doubtless in the packet of letters, presented various keepsakes to relatives.
6 But his oration ceased as he saw their eyes, which were large with great tales.
7 What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar.
8 During the five minutes or so that Mr. Chillip devoted to the delivery of this oration, my aunt eyed him narrowly.
9 Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer's honour.
10 That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Context Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
11 It is not necessary to set down the rest of the oration.
12 gave his oration, and it had not been possible to raise them from this passivity even when the judge was being humiliated.
13 Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators.
14 And that we have been betrayed into it by statesmen and orators mouthing catchwords and prejudices, said Melly rapidly.
15 Many other orators spoke after the excited nobleman, and all in the same tone.
Example Sentence:
1 He was asked to deliver an oration at the meeting.
2 Demades, the Ancient Greek orator, is about to address an assembly in Athens on a matter of vital importance.