ELOQUENCE in a Sentence

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Mr Keyes, a former radio talk-show host and Reagan administration diplomat, is the most eloquent of the Republican candidates.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELOQUENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  The women did not speak, but their pale set faces pleaded with a mute eloquence that was louder than wailing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  It was not merely the man's words, the torrent of his eloquence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
6  It was then that Cora saw the form of Magua gliding among his countrymen, and speaking with his fatal and artful eloquence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
8  Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
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.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  He had great eloquence; he persuaded them; we underwent this terrible operation.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
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
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...
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
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—CHANGE OF GATE
15  And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which was well earned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
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.