eloquent

Preposition: on

• subject: Dickson is eloquent on the subject of the penetrometer.
• occasion: I would require to be very eloquent on the occasion in order to be successful.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: I try to avoid pens whenever I'm feeling it because pens try to make emotions eloquent, and they're not.

Modifies a noun

• testimony: Not surprisingly, many of Donne's sermons bear eloquent testimony to the power of Christ's blood.
• preacher: They knew the word of God, some of them were eloquent preachers, very intellectual.
• cortex: The theory of preservation of vertical fibers allows the technique to be used in children where the seizure focus lies within functionally eloquent cortex.
• plea: Released in the paranoid depths of the Cold War the short film was read as an eloquent plea for peace.
• spokesman: Could modern humanism wish for a more eloquent spokesman?
• prose: Dr. Kelley's straightforward yet eloquent prose, coupled with well-pitched humor, crosses the generation gap in a single fluent stride.

Modifying Another Word

• extremely: KIM: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for your extremely eloquent depiction of the global view.
• highly: An extraordinary achievement documented in a highly eloquent way.
• quite: The machine is quite eloquent, but I would be concerned by the needy and slightly neurotic tone.
• very: Simon has given a very eloquent description of why people in business are against monetary union.
• so: Yeshua, the king of kings, doesn't sound so eloquent, and seems to " debate " not as you might expect.
• often: The lecture was delivered with great energy; but it was sober and argumentative, and often eloquent.

Used with adjective complement

• wax: Beware of waxed strings made of candlewick - unless you like your director to wax eloquent while shedding little light.
• become: I remember feeling a kind of calmness come over me as I primed the staff, and Jack's gaze became suddenly eloquent.

Preposition: of

speech: Choose from the troops as a messenger one who is eloquent of speech and endowed with endurance.

Preposition: than

word: I think that the silence of Mary is much more powerful and eloquent than any words or actions of hers would have been.