Sample Sentences for
oration
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    Every June during the time of our school exhibition, the graduating class gave orations and dialogues on Friday night.  (source)
    orations = speeches
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    Soon as they've passed their last examinations in Solid Geometry and Cicero's Orations, looks like they suddenly feel themselves fit to get married—  (source)
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    He settled for a seated oration with a finger in the air:†  (source)
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    Both St. Dominic and the Blessed Virgin Mary had come to him in the oratory.†  (source)
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    They sent cunning messengers, raised to oration the way Masks are raised to war.†  (source)
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    Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states?†  (source)
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    Kings carry the bodies or relics of saints on their shoulders, and kiss bits of their bones, and enrich and adorn their oratories and favourite altars with them.†  (source)
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    In my obsessive reading the story that haunted me most was Caravaggio's Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo and slashed from the frame so carelessly that the collector who'd commissioned the theft had burst out crying when he saw it and refused to take it.†  (source)
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    Gravesend Academy was founded in 1781 by the Rev. Emery Hurd, a follower of the original Wheelwright's original beliefs, a childless Puritan with an ability—according to Wall—for "Oration on the advantages of Learning and its happy Tendency to promote Virtue and Piety."†  (source)
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    But you're not here to make funeral orations for dead traitors.†  (source)
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    But yet had I forgotten to devise* *describe The noble carving, and the portraitures, The shape, the countenance of the figures That weren in there oratories three.†  (source)
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    Mustapha Mond's oratory was almost up to synthetic standards.†  (source)
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    Another central figure, Pica della Mirandola, wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, something that would have been unthinkable in the Middle Ages.†  (source)
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