Example sentences for: eloquence

How can you use “eloquence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At other times Exley's smoky eloquence turns blowsy and verbose.

  • His Texas drawl and folksy eloquence are overpowering--like drinking a gallon of sweet, warm cream.

  • (Some might protest that the study called stylistics deals with art in language, but those who know the nature of stylistics are aware that it does not even come close to measuring effectiveness, poetry, eloquence, beauty, and other characteristics associated with artistic expression.)

  • that the biographer is himself a fine writer, bearing with grace his knowledge of Irish history, and writing with wit, authority and, when appropriate, considerable eloquence," says Thomas Flanagan in the New York Times Book Review . (See James Wood's enthusiastic review in Slate.)

  • The fish-wives and their fishmongering husbands got a reputation for their lusty and lurid eloquence of speech.


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