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Definition of speech-making in English: speech-makingnoun mass nounThe art or practice of delivering a formal address in public. Example sentencesExamples - Hill argued, as did almost all of the guides to public speaking, that speech-making could be learnt.
- People will excuse all kinds of lousy speechmaking, just chalking it up to inexperience.
- Any future offers on speechmaking, I am afraid I will have to turn down.
- The speechmaking prowess that led him into public life three decades ago remains the most daunting weapon in his personal arsenal.
- Practise your presentation and speech-making skills - although most of you probably find that side of things easier than I do.
- Churchill's wartime speech-making was the stuff of legend.
- The day started at 9am with live music; then the serious business of speech-making started at 11.30 am, under a bright, blue sky.
- George Orwell once wrote an essay on deception in political essay-writing and speech-making and since then every shyster on the landscape has proclaimed himself an "Honest Orwellian".
- Pericles developed a loyal, if informal, mass constituency of ordinary Athenians through speechmaking in the Assembly.
- His Portland "homecoming" in May 2002 was partly a time for speechmaking, at the invitation of local architecture organizations.
- The Christmas and New Year period is a popular time for speech-making.
- One area in which practices have changed dramatically is speechmaking.
- Comedians, philosophers, evangelists and fascists have all used distinct styles of speech-making to move or fool their crowds.
- The glorious dream my father shared with us on August 28, 1963 was not just an exercise in eloquent speechmaking.
- Given that much of the organisation is off at conferences this week I am spared speech-making at a farewell afternoon tea.
- He had the ability to go straight to the point in argument, had a quick wit, and excelled at speech-making.
- The Large Hadron Collider was switched on last week amid scenes of pomp and jollity, much drinking of champagne, speech-making, and miscellaneous frivolity.
- Speech-making is a thoroughly detestable occupation.
- It steered his legal career off into an incredibly successful tangent, and he's since been lauded for his speechmaking abilities, both in and out of character.
- Although Socrates had studiously avoided speech-making in the Assembly, the Agora was a public place; speech in the Agora that had public effects was subject to public censure.
Synonyms rhetoric, eloquence, grandiloquence, magniloquence, public speaking, declamation, way with words, the gift of the gab, fluency
Derivativesnoun He was quiet but witty, and an excellent speechmaker. Example sentencesExamples - He's a better speech-maker than me.
- Humour was, understandably, far from the agenda of the speech-makers that day.
- In his maiden speech, in December 1852, he confessed that he was not a speech-maker.
- He is scarcely a competent speech-maker let alone an exciting one.
Synonyms speaker, public speaker, lecturer, declaimer, rhetorician
Definition of speech-making in US English: speech-makingnoun The art or practice of delivering a formal address in public. Example sentencesExamples - People will excuse all kinds of lousy speechmaking, just chalking it up to inexperience.
- The Christmas and New Year period is a popular time for speech-making.
- One area in which practices have changed dramatically is speechmaking.
- The Large Hadron Collider was switched on last week amid scenes of pomp and jollity, much drinking of champagne, speech-making, and miscellaneous frivolity.
- The speechmaking prowess that led him into public life three decades ago remains the most daunting weapon in his personal arsenal.
- Practise your presentation and speech-making skills - although most of you probably find that side of things easier than I do.
- Pericles developed a loyal, if informal, mass constituency of ordinary Athenians through speechmaking in the Assembly.
- The day started at 9am with live music; then the serious business of speech-making started at 11.30 am, under a bright, blue sky.
- Churchill's wartime speech-making was the stuff of legend.
- He had the ability to go straight to the point in argument, had a quick wit, and excelled at speech-making.
- The glorious dream my father shared with us on August 28, 1963 was not just an exercise in eloquent speechmaking.
- Any future offers on speechmaking, I am afraid I will have to turn down.
- Comedians, philosophers, evangelists and fascists have all used distinct styles of speech-making to move or fool their crowds.
- George Orwell once wrote an essay on deception in political essay-writing and speech-making and since then every shyster on the landscape has proclaimed himself an "Honest Orwellian".
- Given that much of the organisation is off at conferences this week I am spared speech-making at a farewell afternoon tea.
- His Portland "homecoming" in May 2002 was partly a time for speechmaking, at the invitation of local architecture organizations.
- Hill argued, as did almost all of the guides to public speaking, that speech-making could be learnt.
- It steered his legal career off into an incredibly successful tangent, and he's since been lauded for his speechmaking abilities, both in and out of character.
- Speech-making is a thoroughly detestable occupation.
- Although Socrates had studiously avoided speech-making in the Assembly, the Agora was a public place; speech in the Agora that had public effects was subject to public censure.
Synonyms rhetoric, eloquence, grandiloquence, magniloquence, public speaking, declamation, way with words, the gift of the gab, fluency
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