Meanings of sermonize in English

I could volubly sermonize; only it should be a young maid to listen.

You going to use a lectern and sermonize or do the walkabout talk-show act?

But it was impossible to quiet Savéliitch when once he had begun to sermonize.

You might sit and sermonize just as well, mightn't you?

Heaven knows I have no right to sermonize; but, at least, I never shammed anything.

We employ no Dale Carnegie people to sermonize you.

As Luke was the host and he is a general favorite, he was asked to sermonize.

Re-rack, chalk up, or sermonize about the spiritual virtues of trad climbing to disguise your turpitude.

They will dance a good deal, sing a good deal, make love, but sermonize very little.

Mrs. Eddy was very wise in not allowing her "readers" or followers to sermonize or explain her writings.

You used occasionally to sermonize too; I wish you would, in charity, favour me with a sheet full in your own way.

What makes this most ironic is that the US loves to sermonize to the world about the need for open ideas and political debate.

Then will the birds trill out upon the branches their songs of joy, and sermonize in lilting tones from the pulpits of the trees.

Growing more and more firm in my virtuous rôle, I continued to sermonize her from my chair, enveloping this hypocritical propaganda in sonorous words.

I would listen to him sermonize, to find out if his flock had so many vexing questions, and if so, how he answered them.

And with that he grew quite paternal and ended by sermonizing.