How to Use oration in a Sentence

oration

noun
  • She made an oration on the value of art in society.
  • His body language delivers an oration of smiles, smirks, scowls, and snarls.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021
  • These men do so many things well, but probably their most critical trait is oration.
    — Esquire, 16 Nov. 2015
  • His star tight end, however, wasn’t quite as comfortable in the art of oration.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 18 July 2023
  • 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
  • Bobby had climbed on the desk in the enormous office to deliver a mock oration.
    — Andrew Meier, Time, 14 Oct. 2022
  • That speech has also been touted as one of the greatest orations of the century.
    — Justin Madden, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Nixon was polished, smothered in makeup and made to deliver tough-minded orations in a soft voice.
    — Timothy Stanley, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • 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
  • There are periodic explicative orations about the state of the nation.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Jackson said King was in no mood to speak the night of April 3, but found the energy to give what turned out to be his last oration.
    — Jim Williams, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • For the past year teacher Debra Muniz’s fifth-graders have practiced their oration and performance skills.
    — Priscella Vega, Daily Pilot, 4 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
  • 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
  • Innings prior, manager Bob Melvin had delivered a dugout oration to his listless team.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2021
  • 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
  • And Edward Norton tried to see McKellen’s poetry and raise him an even more on-the-nose piece of oration.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The ship’s owner, the Bangladesh Shipping Corp oration, instructed Capt.
    — Benoit Faucon and Joe Parkinson, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • In between his oration, Douglas pauses to perform some of his songs, often in unexpected settings.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2022
  • In addition to the dialogue, the entire cast is terrific, with Odom adapting the cadences of Davis’ oration.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The agency has received 31 inquiries related to Celgene Corp oration alone.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • The most famous defense of democracy, the funeral oration of Pericles, is about the harmony of risk and freedom.
    — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Booker’s speech was a wide-ranging protest One unusual element of Booker’s oration is that it was not focused on just one narrow issue.
    — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
  • A long time ago, a famous Israeli military leader delivered a funeral oration near the border with Gaza.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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