VERB
- conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation
- deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
How To Use perorate In A Sentence
- As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style. The Genius
- One of the key instigators of the Microsoft case, Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback, famously perorated that Microsoft had become a "threat to the underpinnings of a free society. The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket
- Men cannot for ever perorate, and agitate and plot. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
- So little was he supposed to have spoken seriously that another, of whose ceasing to perorate there is no prospect, characterized his criticism in language so strong that it cannot well be repeated. Lost Leaders
- And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- Canalis, like many men accustomed to perorate, allowed to be too plainly seen. Modeste Mignon
- Who are you," he perorated, "and what am I, that I should put my neck into the rope at your bidding? WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
- On or near the sites of the famous Feuillants and Jacobins he now laid down splendid thoroughfares; and where the constitutionals or reds a decade previously had perorated and fought, the fashionable world of Paris now rolled in gilded cabriolets along streets whose names recalled the The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
- No Epworth Leaguers or Christian Endeavorers whereased, resoluted or perorated until their tongues were worn to a frazzle, trying to "preserve the honor of our ger-rate and gal-orious State by suppressing feather-pillow pugilism. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- How we shall prologuize, how we shall perorate, 265 Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning