declaim
verb (used without object)
to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech.
is declaiming
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present progressiveof declaim (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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 ā Jun. 5, 2018
At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next he may be slanging to beat Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"What shall one of us That struck the foremost"— "That is declaiming," said Miss Winter.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Frederic Taber Cooper
