declaim
verb (used without object)
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech.
have declaimed
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present perfectof declaim.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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
Greater orators have declaimed less sincere funeral orations.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
I think many of them have declaimed more against the baseness of covetous spirits,499 than many Christian preachers, and in the very practice of it have outstripped the most part of the Christian world.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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 Andrew Dickson White
