Example Sentences

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But, your Highness, the streets are full of demagogues who have been haranguing the people since morning.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

He might have been haranguing, cowboy-like, for the benefit of the man they feigned not to notice, but it was plain, nevertheless, that he was angry.

From The Desert of Wheat by Grey, Zane

He talked with any amount of fire and vigor, and in a voice pitched so high that he might have been haranguing a multitude.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

All the orations were in Latin, and the young men might have been haranguing a Roman army, so vigorous were they.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

There are gatherings in the streets, and though the lord mayor and Robert Gaiton and many of the better class have been haranguing them, they refuse to disperse to their homes.

From A March on London by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)