[
UK
/ˈɛləkwənt/
]
[ US /ˈɛɫəkwənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɫəkwənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
silver speech
able to dazzle with his facile tongue
How To Use eloquent In A Sentence
- I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
- The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
- His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
- He remains an eloquent and witty portrait of self-delusion.
- It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
- Brilliant and eloquent, he was full of jokes and pranks. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a world in which the grimace is often more eloquent than the phrase.
- Though the guzzling gumshoes of the 30's and 40's evolved from those eloquent pipe-smoking dandies, they have as much in common as rotgut rye and Earl Grey tea.
- Sister Aimee was a talented thespian as well as a legendarily eloquent preacher.
- If he had kissed her with those uneloquent and untrained lips of his, impure in their purity, she would never have forgiven herself. Too Old for Dolls A Novel