Example sentences for: speaker

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

  • Although some members of the House sought the creation of a Select Committee on Terrorism in the beginning of 2001, the Speaker asked the intelligence ccommittee to set up a terrorism working group instead.

  • Then incoming Speaker Bob Livingston resigned, declaring, "I must set the example that I hope President Clinton will follow."

  • 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 Speaker Yields

  • Seldom did anyone admit to lying, but statements were often couched in terms colorfully indicating that the speaker had abandoned verity.


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