DECLAIM in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for DECLAIM, such as:

1. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
2. She wrote a book declaiming against our corrupt society.
3. Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
4. declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch, just as he had done before to Levin.
5. What's more, each declaimed some phrase or fragment from their parts.

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 Meanings and Examples of DECLAIM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
declaim
 v.  speak loudly and vehemently; make formal speech
Classic Sentence:
1  What's more, each declaimed some phrase or fragment from their parts.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
2  He had declaimed himself into a violent heat, and was as hoarse as he was hot.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
3  declaimed Stepan Arkadyevitch, just as he had done before to Levin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
4  was declaimed with the painful precision of a schoolgirl who has been taught to recite by some second-rate professor of elocution.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the foreign slave-trade.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING
7  Jean-Jacques a declaimer; Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Example Sentence:
1  At Thanksgiving dinners, our grandfather used to declaim his right, as the eldest, to sit at the head of the table.
2  It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
3  These lines make far more sense when declaimed than when simply read out.
4  Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
5  She wrote a book declaiming against our corrupt society.