Example sentences for: speaker

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

  • Those who worry about how the ruffian image will play should Armey become speaker can rest easy: As both angler and politician, one Armey admirer told me, "He's catch-and-release."

  • Even an empty enthusiasm for ideas is appealing in a party whose other leaders (Dole, Speaker Newt Gingrich, Chairman Haley Barbour) claim not to have read their own platform.

  • The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.

  • The end result of his work therefore is tantamount to sabotage, albeit unintended, since any native Yiddish speaker starting to answer the questionnaire with the help of this Guide would soon have to discard, in utter confusion, both the Census Form and the Guide as well.

  • The speaker, the scriptwriter, and their audience might have thought that President and Mrs. Bush were ill with Grave disease.


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