stemwinding
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of stemwinding
Example Sentences
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Last year, he delivered a stemwinding speech fresh off a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that clocked in at more than two hours.
From Washington Times
Bernie Sanders delivers all these big, stemwinding proposals and doesn’t really have to explain how he’s going to pass any of them or get them paid for.
From MSNBC
His rags-to-riches tale, his business background and his stemwinding oratory have made Tea Partyers swoon.
From Time
Other chief Democrats stumping and rallying right down to polling day: Senator John Kennedy, Massachusetts urbanite who voted against rigid price props in 1956, preceded Eisenhower at Cedar Rapids' corn-picking contest with a stemwinding attack upon the author of flexible props, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: "His objective may be to get the government out of the farming business, but the farmers' objective apparently is to get Mr. Benson out of the governing business."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Humphrey will concentrate his personal stemwinding in the cities, mainly Milwaukee.
From Time Magazine Archive
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