| People stood stock-still and simply orated, their arms firmly bolted to their sides. |
| He lectured pairs of tourists, gestured and orated grandly, tried to recruit them to his cause, and promptly forgot that he ever saw them. |
| From morning until evening, at all times, opportune and otherwise, Mary orated. |
| When the headmaster attempted to take the money, the speaker moved it just beyond grasp while he orated on and on and on. |
| The pimply-faced pubescent gazed in wonderment as his elder sibling orated perceptively on the great mysteries of teenage life. |
| I have orated much against the American hotel clerk and his diamond pin and cool insolence, but I shall never do it again. |
