How to Use declaim in a Sentence

declaim

verb

• The actress declaimed her lines with passion.
• The speakers declaimed on a variety of issues.
• The legendary politician was declaiming, a hand reaching out to snatch at the air.
  — oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2020
• Issues are raised, debated and declaimed, often at the top of the cast's lungs.
  — Ricahrd S. Ginell, latimes.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The pastors who speak at those have nearly half an hour each to declaim, and the speakers bring many of their own congregants to the host church with them.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Cho is no amateur, but even in its opening moments, the show declaims rather than evokes.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• Near the start of the novel, Frankenstein attends a lecture in which the professor declaims on the promise of modern science.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2017
• In the opening Chorale, a sinewy viola and then a keening clarinet declaimed as if from a pulpit, while spacious chords rang out from the other four players.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Here is Brooks, declaiming about what followed the failure of U.S. campaign finance reform.
  — Richard Lipez, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
• Intimacy, Serafino declaims, is the lifeblood of her work.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 22 Mar. 2018
• Both emperor and empress compose classical poems to be declaimed to the court several times a year.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Places come into view as do people who read, deliberate and declaim uptown and down, largely in Manhattan though also in the Bronx.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• These were then declaimed by a speech synthesizer, with the androidal American accent that has thereafter become his trademark.
  — Martin Rees, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• These were then declaimed by a speech synthesiser, with the androidal American accent that thereafter became his trademark.
  — Martin Rees, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2018
• At the opening ceremony of this year’s conference, the ballroom at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown was buzzing with fresh-faced capitalist devotees sipping wine and beer and declaiming their love of Rand’s work.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• One soprano declaims these words while another sings settings of poems by Rebecca Elson, who tells of a similar struggle, in more oblique terms.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• In this sense, all fiction — and this has been roughly true since the early nineteenth century, when the burgeoningly popular, still somewhat novel novel form, was declaimed as a woman’s art — is chick lit.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
• Green’s script is truffled with cosmic aphorisms that the lovers declaim and that a villainous conductor named the Unnamable (the great character actor Denis Podalydès) spews forth with wicked glee.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Chatty to a fault, these gangsters rarely kill without preamble, declaiming everything from philosophy to Fauvism and Buddhism to Brexit.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, miamiherald, 14 Feb. 2018
• These narcissists declaim their insecurities and grievances in the language of personal essays.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 9 Feb. 2018
• Introduced while smugly declaiming his masturbatory fantasies to his high school English class, Sidney is barely bearable.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
• The design team — especially Jason Sherwood (sets) and Linda Cho (costumes) — gives us haunting underwater vignettes involving a giant turtle and declaiming clams.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Mr. Huston’s performance, however competent, is no match compared with Heston’s heaving, oratorical gravitas, which gave even casual remarks the ring of Scripture declaimed from a mountaintop.
  — Stephen Holden, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2016
• North America, Gilpin grandly declaimed, had a national, unified personality.
  — Johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
• The contrast is striking with state television documentaries featuring bossy, relentless narrators declaiming upbeat slogans.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• Dumont also evokes classical theater oratory but transposes minimalist stagecraft to cinematic realism: His characters declaim on hilly exteriors, in windblown nature and literally beneath the heavens.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024