Sample Sentences fordiscourse (auto-selected)
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The event has elevated the level of public discourse on this issue.discourse = conversation (or the exchange of ideas) on a particular topic
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...and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. (source)discourse = conversation
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She sat, elbows on the table, her head in her hands, catching only fragments of his discourse.† (source)
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He was quiet a moment, expecting some comment on his discourse, but no one said a word.† (source)
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A kind of excellent dumb discourse, Willie!† (source)
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Maybe I was racing through King's College, the Discourse on Inequality tucked under my arm.† (source)
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Simply put, the Count found political discourse of any persuasion to be tedious.† (source)
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he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses;† (source)
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Therefore I addressed myself a second time to the stabbing, but Hwin came near to me and put her head in between me and the dagger and discoursed to me most excellent reasons and rebuked me as a mother rebukes her daughter.† (source)
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He used to take guests around after dinner, discoursing upon the fragments.† (source)
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Doubtless this Arrius hath tricks of language; otherwise he could not so confound himself, to-day a Jew, to-morrow a Roman; but of the rich tongue of Athene—discourseth he in that as well?† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She discourseth" in older English, later they said, "She discourses."
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As I belong to worship and affect In honour honesty, the tract of ev'rything Would by a good discourser lose some life, Which action's self was tongue to.† (source)
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Their discourse went forward in a miasma of sweat and heat that suggested a kind of indolence.† (source)
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.† (source)
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The proportion that discoursed in more depth on ideological issues such as liberty, constitutional rights, resistance to tyranny, and so on was smaller-40 percent.† (source)
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Harry has, we should say, genius enough to attempt the quest of true manhood instead of discoursing pitifully about his stupid Steppenwolf at every difficulty encountered.† (source)
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