How to Use orator in a Sentence

orator

noun
  • Be sure to scroll all the way to the end for a surprise orator.
    — Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Tines read the first text like a great orator, every word seared.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • How did these perspectives get lodged in the young orator’s brain?
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Comey is a gifted orator who is not shy about claiming the spotlight.
    — Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • Pa was a tall, handsome bowtie-wearing man who was acclaimed as one of the great orators of his era.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
  • The power of an orator who can, in this way, fuse feeling and doctrine is immense.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The first pours from political orators; the second winds around friends at a bar.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019
  • And he can’t be described as a persuasive orator.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Merkel has stuck to careful messaging Merkel is not a skilled orator.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And Morrisey is from out of state and isn’t a very impressive orator or debater.
    — Mason Adams, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Enter Sagara, who talks about the breaking pitch with a physicist’s grasp and an orator’s passion.
    — Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The orator had to fight the urge to blab for too long, bore the crowd or expound on a Great Life Lesson.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • But this one, more than previous such speeches since Mao’s day, bore the personal stamp of the orator.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017
  • My own children may not remember their grandfather, the skilled orator.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The movie is most wrenching when the eternal orator finds that his verbal dexterity avails him nothing.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Booker, who’s known as a talented orator, is no stranger to New Hampshire.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Her father Walter was a prominent lawyer and orator.
    — Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Van Gundy, as skilled and loquacious an orator is there is in sports, never opened his mouth after his initial comments.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2017
  • The great orator has made little effort to send out a message to the country to get the vaccine, or to dispel the myths surrounding it.
    — Rana Ayyub, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The Greek orator, Cicero, came from a family that grew chickpeas.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
  • One of the early pioneers in podcasting, Carlin is, above all else, a skilled orator.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 July 2019
  • The orator asked if Deion would address the congregation of thousands.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Messiaen provided florid descriptions of the movements, and in this one the reed warbler is the great orator of his local lily pond.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021
  • In contrast to the mousy Ms Tsai, Mr Han is a natural orator with a common touch.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Booker, by contrast, is like an old-fashioned orator out of the 1960s civil rights movement.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
  • Patrick, 63, is widely regarded as a skilled campaigner and gifted orator, able to connect one-on-one as well as with a large crowd.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • But the two Americans had agreed that Hemesath, the more experienced orator, would take the lead.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This year’s theme is centered around orator and scholar Frederick Douglass.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The famed orator moved to Rochester in the 1840s after escaping slavery.
    — Scottie Andrew and Anna Sturla, CNN, 6 July 2020
  • The Greek statesman and orator Aeschines wrote that, in the art of persuasion, speaking with an arm outside one’s tunic is very bad manners.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023

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