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talk at length and formally about a topic
The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England
How To Use hold forth In A Sentence
- Instead he likes to hold forth. Times, Sunday Times
- I've never seen anyone who could hold forth so long.
- Camera crews are inscrutable as interviewees and interviewers hold forth. Times, Sunday Times
- I've never seen anyone who could hold forth so long.
- Time for me to hold forth: "Every country should hold up Ethiopian officials for three hours at their airports, not the ordinary people of course," quoth I. Mike Arkus: Recent African Airport Experiences: From Presidential Shutdown to an 'Are-They-Out-to-Get-Me' Moment
- Then I see my name before me, written in a crooked hand on a limp placard, held out in offering but noncommittally, as a salesperson might hold forth a sweater she has already decided you will not buy. Between Expectations
- It is all well for the bureaucrats and politicians sitting in their offices to hold forth. Times, Sunday Times
- The worthy archbishop had announced his approach to the enemy he was about to attack by a cloud of the same kind of libels, satires, and epigrams, which he had always found so efficacious in prejudicing the people of Paris against any one whom he thought fit to hold forth to popular odium. Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
- I've never seen anyone who could hold forth so long.
- Hence my willingness to hold forth about Real. Times, Sunday Times