How to Use hold forth in a Sentence

hold forth

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• At dinner that night in the volunteer’s mess tent, Patrick Lee holds forth.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2016
• The composer was in attendance, holding forth in lectures and discussions, his arachnid mind spinning webs across music history.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• Anchors hold forth from behind a desk, throwing to a variety of stories, dispatches from correspondents and newsmaker interviews.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
• Porter sketched Trotsky holding forth at a conference table, proselytizing to the American bureaucrats.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026
• In a revealing interview, the great American designer holds forth on his LVMH sale, past scandals, and exactly—or maybe not so exactly—what his next chapter will mean for his runway collections.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 18 Aug. 2026