Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Whilst a young enthusiast is declaiming Shakespeare, one of his listeners—doubtless, equally enthusiastic, but with an eye for victuals—is interrupting a soliloquy with the remark: "Now! who says bacon?"

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various