orate

/ˈɔːɹe‍ɪt/

/ˈoːɹeɪt/

[verb]

to orate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

to present ideas using formal speech

Examples

1. You're basically orating, as if you were Homer.

2. Their honeymoon consisted of a University of Michigan football game in Ann Arbor, followed by a decidedly unromantic trip up to Owasso, Michigan on a cold October night in the outdoors to hear Thomas E. Dewey orate.

3. He's makin' the world a better place, do you see this house of jurors that's he's just orating to?

4. Cochrane orated a summation fitting of a wartime speech, and even though it was completely over the top by most people’s standards, it meant something as wel.