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How to use orator in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Orator means someone who orates or delivers an oration. Example: “A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.”

Examples of orator by meaning

nounA skilled and eloquent public speaker.

  • If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)...

More sentences with orator

  • A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.From the entry appearance
  • The busy orator and mother of two couldn't get around to her unfinished speech.From the entry get around to
  • Demosthenes was the first orator of Greece.From the entry first
  • The orator composed his speech over the week prior.From the entry compose
  • Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.From the entry antiquity
  • The orator acquitted himself very poorly.From the entry acquit
  • You're assuming that if someone spreads they aren't a good orator.2022 July 8, u/chromantical, “spreading is cringe and should be stopped”, in Reddit, r/Debate, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2023. From the entry spread
  • During the Golden Age of ancient Greece, no one was safe from spells, not even exalted politicians and orators.2001 April 22, Lisa Orkin, “Archeologists Find Ancient Greeks Practiced That Old—Very Old—Black Magic”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles…. From the entry Ancient Greece
  • Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt the Lip."1986 September 22, “West Germany: Last Taunts From the Lip”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2021, retrieved 25 Apr 2014. From the entry acerbic
  • Your orator sheweth that the parties live out of this State and your orator is remindless save in this honorable Court.1981, Willie Pauline Young, James E. Wooley, A Collection of Upper South Carolina Genealogical and Family Records. From the entry remindless
  • He not only was a very able man, a blazer of pathways, but he was a great orator.1938, National Association of State Universities, Transactions and Proceedings of the National Association of State Universities in the…. From the entry blazer
  • He was also an orator of no mean ability.1918, George Franklin Wisner, The Wisners in America and Their Kindred, page 211. From the entry mongerer
  • I’m no orator like Mr Strout, but I also should like to thank the judge for his day’s work.1904, Tregarthen, J. C. (John Coulson), “The Course”, in Wild life at the Land's End : observations of the habits and haunts of the fox…. From the entry flambustered
  • Like Tanner he is an orator, an outsider, a rebel against the existing political and social order, who believes that society misdistributes wealth horribly.1991, John Anthony Bertolini, The playwrighting self of Bernard Shaw, page 44. From the entry misdistribute
  • Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator.1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7. From the entry questor
  • The firm did a large and lucrative business from the start, the orders from spread-eagle orators often taxing the full capacity of its works.1900, The Nation, volume 70, page 101. From the entry spread-eagle
  • However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes.2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153. From the entry well-spoken
  • Sifting through the work of great orators like Philostratus and Quintilian they identify numerous examples of classical irony, metaphor, comparison, etc. which are missing in Paul.1996, Timothy B. Savage, Power Through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians, Cambridge: Cambridge…. From the entry sift

Meaning of orator

  1. noun Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
  2. noun A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
  3. noun Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.

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Questions about orator in a sentence

How do you use orator in a sentence?
Orator is used as a noun. For example: “A person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.”
What is a short sentence with orator?
“The orator acquitted himself very poorly.”
What does orator mean?
Orator means someone who orates or delivers an oration.

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