have declaimed
- present perfect of declaim.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps in his last hours Sargent stumbled upon this musing from that compendium: “People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017
In this play occurs the speech that countless American boys have declaimed, “On the Grampian Hills my father feeds his flocks.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Greater orators have declaimed less sincere funeral orations.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
They have declaimed in parliament, and they have declaimed in print, against all the gymnastic exercises which time immemorial have been the pride and the pastime of the hardy natives of the British islands.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
A president of less shrewdness would have declaimed to the students on the enormity of such a procedure, and have accentuated his eloquence with threats.
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 by White, Andrew Dickson
