ELOQUENCE in a Sentence
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87 example sentences for ELOQUENCE, such as:
1. Love and business teach eloquence.
2. Silence is more eloquent than words.
3. Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
4. The crowds were stirred by Martin Luther King's eloquence.
5. She made an eloquent appeal for action before it was too late.
2. Silence is more eloquent than words.
3. Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
4. The crowds were stirred by Martin Luther King's eloquence.
5. She made an eloquent appeal for action before it was too late.
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Meanings and Examples of ELOQUENCE
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eloquence
n. powerful and effective language; persuasive speech
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 Ethan, a moment earlier, had felt himself on the brink of eloquence; but the mention of Zeena had paralysed him.
2 Ellen protested but Charles pleaded with new-found eloquence, for he was impatient to be off to South Carolina to join Wade Hampton's Legion, and Gerald sided with the two young people.
3 The women did not speak, but their pale set faces pleaded with a mute eloquence that was louder than wailing.
4 Mrs. Bogart spoke of the eloquence of the Reverend Mr. Zitterel, the coldness of cold days, the price of poplar wood, Dave Dyer's new hair-cut, and Cy Bogart's essential piety.
5 It was not merely the man's words, the torrent of his eloquence.
6 It was then that Cora saw the form of Magua gliding among his countrymen, and speaking with his fatal and artful eloquence.
7 Dropping the light robe of skin from his shoulder, he stretched forth his arm, and commenced a burst of his dangerous and artful eloquence.
8 Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
9 With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice.
10 He had great eloquence; he persuaded them; we underwent this terrible operation.
11 Thus he discoursed gravely and paternally; in default of examples, he invented parables, going directly to the point, with few phrases and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus Christ.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP
12 The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of Theramene, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders great services to judicial eloquence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX—A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FO...
13 There is no more sovereign eloquence than the true in indignation; he was eloquent with that eloquence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14 Jean Valjean had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has spontaneously cultivated itself.
15 And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which was well earned.
Example Sentence:
1 Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
2 Busy collecting bees, not in front of people talk with eloquence.
3 Love and business teach eloquence.
4 The crowds were stirred by Martin Luther King's eloquence.
5 She made an eloquent appeal for action before it was too late.
6 The defence lawyer made an eloquent plea for his client's acquittal.
7 Silence is more eloquent than words.
8 Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.
9 His eloquent speech called out a response in the heart of every man.
10 My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered him.
11 At school the children made so much of him and of Joe, and delivered such eloquent admiration from their eyes, that the two heroes were not long in becoming insufferably "stuck-up."
12 The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most "eloquent" thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.
13 Ushakov is a new generation of Latvian politician – young, charismatic and eloquent.