Examples of 'pontificate' in a sentence
Meaning of "pontificate"
Pontificate is a noun that refers to the action of speaking or expressing one's opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way, often with an air of authority or self-importance
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- The status or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex.
- To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
- To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
- To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
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Let me pontificate upon your sorry state.
If you want to endlessly pontificate start a blog.
His pontificate is marked by a theocratic conception of power.
There are two gold medals of my pontificate.
An entire pontificate is condensed in words like these.
The great blemish in his pontificate was nepotism.
His pontificate was one of the most glorious.
Pray for the end of this pontificate.
Theologians pontificate on the products of their imagination.
Ganswein in the last days of his pontificate.
This new pontificate comes across as a pontificate of reforms.
This was last public homily of his pontificate.
I do not pretend to pontificate from the helm of a tank.
Two important events marked his pontificate.
His pontificate has been short but very difficult.
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It will be one of the weightiest of the pontificate.
Professionally pontificate pandemic expertise without distributed applications.
I abstain from commenting on the present pontificate.
A stranger pontificate in history shall likely never be found.
But he was not allowed to accept the pontificate.
His pontificate was marked by two achievements.
Attention to communication is a leit motiv of this pontificate.
In the last years of his pontificate he was busied.
So we pontificate while waiting for the next massacre.
The pontiff owes me one pontificate.
It is easy to pontificate about how others must change.
Just watching the idiots pontificate.
I am not here to pontificate about how things should be.
Till the end of his pontificate.
But his pontificate was marred by ongoing communication blunders.
The throne of a great pontificate is empty.
He would attempt this by an intellectual and diplomatic pontificate.
This whole pontificate has opened new paths.
The first change of the pontificate.
You would have me pontificate and play the hero.
In the first year of what they call my pontificate.
His pontificate began well.
It was the greatest act of his pontificate.
Allow me to pontificate if you will.
What is at issue is the record of his long pontificate.
And please do not pontificate at me about poverty and inequality.
But you did not come here to hear me pontificate.
His was the longest pontificate in the history of the papacy.
That you have accomplished during your pontificate.
They pontificate religious fervor.
He accumulated fifty five benefices during this pontificate.
The true story of this pontificate is now beginning to be written.
Here is a study on a major issue in the present pontificate.
Experts often pontificate on topics far beyond their expertise.
Little continuity from one pontificate to the next.
