harangue

In a sentence

Six example sentences with harangue, each labelled with its topic.

• The halftime harangue lasted eleven minutes, and the players came out looking more frightened than motivated.

  Basketball

• The film opens with a ten-minute harangue from the headmaster, delivered at full volume to a hall of silent students.

  Movies

• What was billed as a training session became a harangue about missed targets that ran ninety minutes past lunch.

  Business

• The senator's speech became a harangue against the committee that lasted two hours and emptied the chamber.

  Politics

• The novel gives the innkeeper a four-page harangue about taxes, and readers either skip it or quote it for years.

  Literature

• The guild leader's harangue in voice chat ran twenty minutes, and three players logged off before it ended.

  Gaming

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