Example Sentences
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Because many colonists were illiterate, the Declaration was commonly declaimed by local officials in town squares and preachers in pulpits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
As Weaver's Prospero declaimed "Come forth, I say," Hayley sprang from her seat and rushed the stage with Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from Tyneside.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
“Oh Allah make it easy for them to reach there, and bless us with the death of a martyr,” he declaimed, his voice reverberating through the mosque’s loudspeakers.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Like many, he once declaimed the rampant use of exclamation marks but later defended them, going so far as to make a case for the Interrobang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Threats to enlist that winter were always declaimed like Brinker’s, with a grinding of back teeth and a flashing of eyes; I had already heard plenty of them.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
