all-talk
Example Sentences
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“Blue Moon” is essentially a one-act play, which is to say it’s all talk, and likely to bore those who are primarily interested in spectacle, or even high drama.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Now advocates, experts and officials are looking for ways to save the whales - though few agree on one solution, and some say Marineland's threats to kill its whales are all talk.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025
"Food is something that we can all talk about," he said.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2024
“Electric Blue,” Pioneers Go East Collective’s contribution to the same bill, was almost all talk: recitations of poems, speeches and court testimony by Allen Ginsberg; memories of the Human Be-In and Chicago in 1967.
From New York Times • May 27, 2024
“You guys are like gallinas cluecas, puro guato, a bunch of clucking chickens, all talk and no action.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
