Example Sentences

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Even at his most inspiring, he was never a firebrand speechifier.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2020

Postmaster General Farley, the Administration's routine banqueteer and speechifier, took the assignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actually, the poet and speechifier had been in him from boyhood: he liked to erect a platform in the barn and electrify himself with his own sermons.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Wilson was no arguer; no speechifier, as he would have called it.

From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

A county member need have very little trouble in that way, and both out of the House and in it is liked the better for not being a speechifier.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George