Example sentences for: speak

How can you use “speak” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Recently I was editing a manuscript of a dictionary in which the lexicographer labeled irregardless an illiteracy, and I suggested that a less critical, more clinical term might be nonstandard . Readers might disagree, but I felt that regardless is more, so to speak, in the public domain than an expression like tête-à-tête , which one might classify as an “intellectualism” and, certainly, a more pretentious term than get-together or meeting . If one is going to be pretentious, one ought to get his pretences properly in a row.

  • The story urges us to "speak up, not just to the nurses and doctors but to our employers as well."

  • Lady Thatcher was inspired to speak by a particular cause.

  • See the señoritas who speak English now,

  • Col­­o­n­na­­ded public buildings, iron balconies, winding streets, flagstoned squares and the many churches all speak of the Portuguese inheritance as well as the Chinese, a fusion of East and West that has produced the unique Macanese culture.


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