Sample Sentences forharangue (editor-reviewed)
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My parents continuously harangue me about my grades.harangue = annoyingly try to persuade or criticize
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She fears a Card Check law would permit unions to pester, harass and harangue employees who would lose the protection of a secret ballot.harangue = annoyingly try to persuade
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The class was subjected to a ten-minute harangue for not taking their homework more seriously.harangue = impassioned speech trying to change behavior
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Mrs. van D. and Dussel continued their harangue: "You know way too much about things you're not supposed to." (source)harangue = impassioned, annoying, critical speech
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The Bird leapt onto a perch over them and delivered his standard harangue: "You must be sober! You must be sincere! You must work for earnest! You must obey! I have spoken." (source)harangue = impassioned and critical lecture
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And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress. (source)harangue = impassioned speech
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Between drink refills and dispensing of utensils and the magically quick arrival of our food, our entire harangue came in limp bursts.† (source)
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From the middle of the barracks, he harangued us: (source)harangued = gave a tirade (emotionally charged speech) in an annoying manner
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On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd. (source)haranguing = giving an impassioned speech complaining or trying to persuade
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He also turned the tables and started lecturing the grandfatherly figure about the shortcomings of his sedentary existence, urging the eighty-year-old to sell most of his belongings, move out of the apartment, and live on the road. Franz took these harangues in stride and in fact delighted in the boy's company. (source)harangues = impassioned critical speeches
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Turnus th' occasion takes, and cries aloud: "Talk on, ye quaint haranguers of the crowd: Declaim in praise of peace, when danger calls, And the fierce foes in arms approach the walls."† (source)
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The eyes of the neighbors were expectantly upon him as they settled themselves in easier positions for a long harangue.† (source)
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The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard. (source)harangued = verbally harassed by someone trying to persuade them
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He'd smolder around the house for hours, grumbling and haranguing until he gnawed her patience down to shreds. (source)haranguing = criticizing in an impassioned and annoying manner
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But it did no good, all this fault laying, all these harangues of accusations bouncing in her head. (source)harangues = impassioned speeches
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John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.† (source)
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