Example sentences for: speaks

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

  • And on CNN's Capital Gang , Robert Novak speaks for many when he asks, "Can you explain to me how a president who wants you to go to jail if you don't have a trigger lock is going to say that these [prisoners] should be released, even though they were collecting arms?"

  • And the sympathetic voice of a paperback travel companion, even one as chatty as Frommer's, can be quite a balm on those lonely train rides when no one else in your compartment speaks your language.

  • Tin Tan made several Mexican films portraying the Mexican American pocho who code-switches between English and Spanish, and speaks caló.

  • But when Thomas Wilson in his Art of Rhetoric (1553) speaks of travail and toil with the sweat of his brows, we can be sure that he is referring to Adam's expulsion from Eden and the beginning of toil for everyone (though Genesis III.19 in the Authorized Version follows Coverdale in using the words sweat of thy face ).

  • Italian women coat their faces with col cream , Romanians ride the trolleybus , and Spaniards, when they feel chilly, don a sueter . Almost everyone in the world speaks on the telephone or the telefoon or even, in China, the te le fung . And almost everywhere you can find nightclubs and television .


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