How to Use oratorical in a Sentence

oratorical

adjective
  • His oratorical skills have been refined over years of sermons at Ebenezer.
    — Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • His lively oratorical skills were often on display at the end of each weekly council meeting.
    — al, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Her voice is closer to the dry tones of the college textbook than to Clark’s deeply personal oratorical flights.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 10 June 2018
  • As a minister in training, King was honing his oratorical skills.
    — Meghan E. Irons, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • His prose has an oratorical flair, like a vinous soliloquy summoning us to enjoy the pleasures of the grape.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Vice presidents are rarely celebrated for their oratorical style, or for anything else.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Williamson’s unique oratorical style is a product of her eclectic biography.
    — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2019
  • His oratorical style and persuasive arguments vaulted him to fame.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The strength of the words, too, depends on their ability to capture the ex-President’s oratorical cadence.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In her Florida years, Safford’s youth on an Illinois farm proved as useful as her oratorical skills.
    — Joy Wallace Dickinson, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Trump’s general-election debates have not exactly been the stuff of oratorical legend.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Still, his oratorical skills, unflagging enthusiasm and abiding sense of faith made him for many an irresistible figure.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2021
  • With his height and his oratorical flourishes, Jackson was a charismatic figure who led protests in Greensboro.
    — Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • More than any major candidate in the race, his oratorical style is conversational with few obvious flourishes.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
  • Both are good, workmanlike interpretations that reflect the company’s deep devotion to the text, rather than to oratorical fireworks.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The Nobel Peace Prize winner was remembered for his masterful oratorical skills.
    — Essence, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Part of the mission is to teach the history of Texas, said Betsy Zachry, chairwoman of the oratorical contest committee.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • That great oratorical, musical compositional power of poetry that so many great Gaelic artists have?
    — Steven Gaydos, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Vocal lines are set in twisting, mock-oratorical phrases as the orchestra bustles with Minimalist-like strings of racing sixteenth notes and pummeling chords.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
  • That wasn’t Newsom’s only oratorical slip-up, although the second one says more about the larger Democratic Party than anything else.
    — Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Among them, Oppenheimer carried the most authority as a result of his leadership of Los Alamos and his oratorical gifts.
    — Charles Thorpe, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • These sermons had only a few hundred more words than those from within the evangelical tradition, a detail that suggests oratorical style or musical interludes might be contributing to their length.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2021
  • On the page, anyway, the ideological and stylistic chasms that separate them start to dissolve in a sea of overlapping oratorical devices, similar phrases and at times identical word choice.
    — Michael Barbaro, New York Times, 9 June 2016
  • The oratorical challenges that life has thrown at him over the last four years—the 2004 convention, the race speech, Berlin—have given chance after chance to flop, but the man seems incapable of doing so.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The Dallas area was a hotbed of competitive debate, and, at first, the oratorical polish of Kuang’s teammates was intimidating.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a dryly academic way of putting something that Willie, with his enviable oratorical powers, transforms into the stuff of excoriating comedy and high drama.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The low-key packaging of such a high-value endorsement also suggests that the Obamas, both of whom are powerful speakers, may be waiting for the right moment to deploy their oratorical skills for maximum impact.
    — Christina Wilkie, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • Biden's remarks also offer a reminder of his yearslong history of verbal misfires and general lack of oratorical discipline, which are blamed in part for damaging his previous runs for the presidency.
    — Author: Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2019
  • Instead of oratorical tricks, Biden should sketch out in clear fashion the strategic implications for America if Putin eventually were to succeed in his drive to swallow large chunks of Ukrainian territory.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2023

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