is declaiming
- present progressive of declaim (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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It’s notionally Duncan who is speaking, addressing Congress, but we know whose noble words he is declaiming.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2018
If an occasional modernist happens in while Rube Fleet is declaiming his favorites, that is just too bad for the modernist.
From Time Magazine Archive
At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an oft-cited cartoon, Mayeux with extended arms, his head sunken lower than usual between his huddled shoulders, is declaiming: "Adam destroyed us with the apple; Lafayette has destroyed us with the pear!"
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
Perhaps because of my fever, perhaps because of my lofty pain, I imagine that some one there is declaiming a great poem, that some one is speaking of Prometheus.
From The Inferno by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
