How to Use orator in a Sentence
orator
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Be sure to scroll all the way to the end for a surprise orator.
— Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 29 Jan. 2018 -
The orator had to fight the urge to blab for too long, bore the crowd or expound on a Great Life Lesson.
— Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017 -
Tines read the first text like a great orator, every word seared.
— Mark Swed, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018 -
Pa was a tall, handsome bowtie-wearing man who was acclaimed as one of the great orators of his era.
— Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 28 June 2023 -
How did these perspectives get lodged in the young orator’s brain?
— David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019 -
In contrast to the mousy Ms Tsai, Mr Han is a natural orator with a common touch.
— The Economist, 25 July 2019 -
Comey is a gifted orator who is not shy about claiming the spotlight.
— Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post, 1 June 2017 -
The first pours from political orators; the second winds around friends at a bar.
— Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 July 2019 -
The famed orator moved to Rochester in the 1840s after escaping slavery.
— Scottie Andrew and Anna Sturla, CNN, 6 July 2020 -
And Morrisey is from out of state and isn’t a very impressive orator or debater.
— Mason Adams, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2018 -
Enter Sagara, who talks about the breaking pitch with a physicist’s grasp and an orator’s passion.
— Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2022 -
The great orator has made little effort to send out a message to the country to get the vaccine, or to dispel the myths surrounding it.
— Rana Ayyub, Time, 23 Apr. 2021 -
In a reading of handwritten vows, Mr. Moore’s skills as an orator shined.
— New York Times, 27 May 2021 -
But this one, more than previous such speeches since Mao’s day, bore the personal stamp of the orator.
— The Economist, 21 Oct. 2017 -
Merkel has stuck to careful messaging Merkel is not a skilled orator.
— Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017 -
But the two Americans had agreed that Hemesath, the more experienced orator, would take the lead.
— Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022 -
Class orator Jason Walton recalled some of the Class of 2018's highlights.
— Janice Steinhagen, Courant Community, 3 July 2018 -
The Greek statesman and orator Aeschines wrote that, in the art of persuasion, speaking with an arm outside one’s tunic is very bad manners.
— Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023 -
Booker, who’s known as a talented orator, is no stranger to New Hampshire.
— Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2021 -
The Greek orator, Cicero, came from a family that grew chickpeas.
— Beth Segal, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021 -
Booker, by contrast, is like an old-fashioned orator out of the 1960s civil rights movement.
— Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 June 2019 -
For months, Trump had gotten a pass because Biden, never a gifted orator, struggled to make a forceful case against Trump.
— Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 July 2024 -
Here, too, Trump’s rhetoric maintains its ties to some of America’s greatest orators.
— Matthew Continetti, National Review, 6 June 2019 -
Messiaen provided florid descriptions of the movements, and in this one the reed warbler is the great orator of his local lily pond.
— Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021 -
The orator asked if Deion would address the congregation of thousands.
— Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 -
The featured orator would be the august Edward Everett.
— Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022 -
One of the early pioneers in podcasting, Carlin is, above all else, a skilled orator.
— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 July 2019 -
Patrick, 63, is widely regarded as a skilled campaigner and gifted orator, able to connect one-on-one as well as with a large crowd.
— BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2019 -
And when the Jesuit missionaries were preaching in the streets, Loyola proved to be a terribly dull orator.
— Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019 -
And so Bryan would eventually meet his nemesis when he was confronted by an orator even more practiced, clever, and dramatic than he.
— Brenda Wineapple, TIME, 28 June 2024
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