Sample Sentences forpontificate (editor-reviewed)
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At every family dinner, her uncle would pontificate about politics for so long that everyone else stopped trying to get a word in.pontificate = talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
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Rather than listening to her team's concerns, the manager would pontificate endlessly about 'best practices' she'd read in a business book.
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There's an edit and they cut away to the journalist, pontificating into the camera. (source)pontificating = lecturing
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They hear British news reports they cannot understand; they hear a Berlin woman pontificating about the proper makeup for a cocktail party. (source)pontificating = talking authoritatively and at length
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For five days, my father listened to his roommate pontificate on the dangers of their new loose surroundings. (source)pontificate = talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
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Why are they pontificating the obvious to Colonel North?† (source)
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His image is to appear as the guardian of robust morality as opposed to the business world, and he is invited pretty regularly to pontificate on television.† (source)
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Fresh from pontificating about hurricane floods, media climatologists were having their most lucrative Christmas in years.† (source)
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He sits below the stage and pontificates.† (source)
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Fawley was a man who belonged to clubs and wore representative ties, pontificated on the skills of sportsmen and assumed a service rank in office correspondence.† (source)
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In the airy chambers beneath the rookery, his girl served them boiled eggs, stewed plums, and porridge, while Pycelle served the pontifications.† (source)
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In some cities, such a thing would bring out the preachers and pontificators.† (source)
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"AEneas Sylvius," say they, "after giving a very circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by a great and small species on the trunk of a pear tree," adds that "this action was fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who related the whole, history of the battle with the greatest fidelity."† (source)
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Something about the river air, the wide open sky, had her pontificating, she laughed.† (source)
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And Pius IX his predecessor's motto was Crux upon Crux—that is, Cross upon Cross—to show the difference between their two pontificates.† (source)
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The Grand Maester had been wont to stroke it when he pontificated.† (source)
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