How to Use eloquent in a Sentence

eloquent

adjective
  • His success serves as an eloquent reminder of the value of hard work.
  • All of the guests have such eloquent points to make about all of these themes.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 30 May 2021
  • This is, for lack of a more eloquent term, the grind-it-out stage of the process.
    — Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Gather your friends, make an eloquent cheese board, pour the wine, and enjoy!
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 7 June 2024
  • This doesn’t need to be organized or eloquent.
    — Allison Palmer march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Martin, as the bird, does some fine singing (and some eloquent squawking).
    — Olin Chism, star-telegram.com, 24 Apr. 2017
  • But that’s not the whole picture — for an artist, at least — this eloquent movie reveals.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Runners who keep going for a lifetime wax eloquent about their love of the sport.
    — Jonathan Beverly, Outside Online, 23 June 2020
  • Garbo stares into the distance, her face a kind of mask but no less eloquent for it.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • In an ideal world being eloquent and prepared would have been enough.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 6 Nov. 2024
  • McKenzie has long been one of the team’s most eloquent players.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Some of the chorus members are more eloquent when not speaking.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Erika is so eloquent and languaging it in that way.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This dialogue of movement is by far the show’s most eloquent.
    — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The book is dotted with tight, eloquent passages that unite these concerns.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Many of their messages were soaring and searing and eloquent.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Jennings wasn’t quite as eloquent but was just as emphatic.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush.
    — John Russell, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • Raulff has given us an eloquent epitaph for the horse’s long relevance to our world.
    — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Thought leadership is not the act of typing out what’s already known in more eloquent words.
    — Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Take a look and enjoy some of the most eloquent images captured around the world in the past seven days.
    — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Some were more eloquent than others, but the sentiments are always the same.
    — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Per usual, Bryant is eloquent throughout, a true scholar of the game.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Of course, Bernstein was a famously eloquent spokesman about that, as well.
    — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • For his part, Mulumba is eloquent and soft-spoken.
    — John J. Lennon september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • One of those very eloquent teenagers was an 18-year-old girl named Janne from Germany.
    — Erin Murtha, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • An f-bomb middle name is hardly the most eloquent way to convey charisma, but that quote isn’t meant for the high rollers.
    — SI.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Here’s my best advice on how to become a more eloquent and decisive speaker.
    — Michael Chad Hoeppner, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • No teenager in the real world has ever been as eloquent at smack talk as Chloe Price.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Best of all is the time spent with Ginsburg herself, who as a subject is both eloquent and candid.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 3 May 2018

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