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[ US /ˈsoʊpˌbɑks/ ]
[ UK /sˈə‍ʊpbɒks/ ]
NOUN
  1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
  2. a crate for packing soap

How To Use soapbox In A Sentence

  • He was a big clumsy galoot in how he delivered his theory, but you don't have to look that far to see what set him upon his soapbox.
  • The news had no real news, just endless presidential openings or soapbox speeches. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • New commuters who embrace the "lifestyle" are far often way to self-congratulating and hate on other forms of transportation, which turns off a lot of people to "people who ride bikes/cyclists" in general. (how many times have i heard someone get up on a soapbox about the evil of cars without having any idea about where the person they are lecturing is coming from?) We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola
  • Environmental activists have climbed on their soapboxes to protest the president's action.
  • But choking off open discussion/critique is a common practice of any number of authoritarian soapboxes on the Web. An explicit statement of the prescriptivist philosophy « Motivated Grammar
  • We were interested in pushing forward certain issues and getting up on our soapbox about them.
  • Therefore I feel obliged to get up on my soapbox and voice my opinion.
  • One of them climbed aboard a soapbox and began informing the locals why gays should be allowed in the military.
  • Shorter "lotusland soapbox": "I'm shocked at the crudity of Republican political discourse and smear tactics. Archive 2008-10-01
  • Also, etiquette and netiquette are key words here, and your equivalent of shouting out on soapbox isn't gonna bring anything more productive than witty remarks (I held my breath and counted to 10 too).
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