bespeak

Whatever the validity of that charge, it doesn’t bespeak an administration indifferent to the fate of American political ideas abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Personally I am devoted to Jake, his puppyish enthusiasm, his liveliness and fleetness of non-toxic banter which all bespeak a profound purity of soul.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2019

Robyn’s radical career moves bespeak that security; as a Canadian, I’ve seen how access to public health care alone widens artists’ range of choices.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2018

From a distance, their silhouettes stand out: rough and tumble contours that bespeak the bumps and bruises accumulated on rides through life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2017

I requested Octav. to bespeak an Apparatus from a Glazier but he would not & defied me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

But that’s the gist of what they would be asked to do, which bespeaks no small amount of hubris on Newsom’s part.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

Those who say they sleep well are a little bashful, as if their easy rest bespeaks a too-cosseted mind, a too-simple life.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

But it bespeaks a fundamental and cruel misunderstanding of autonomy and liberty rights, and a return to something far more pernicious.

From Slate ● May 10, 2022

The fact that this surprises me only bespeaks the depths of my ignorance.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

And then bespake Sir Bredbeddle, And these were the words said he: "Why, I will wrestle with yon lodly feend, God! my governor thou shalt bee."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then bespake that gentle Knight Until his meiny, "Now, put on your simple weeds That ye brought from the sea!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

And then bespake him gentle Gawaine, Said, "Lady, thats but a skill; And because thou art my owne lady, 170 Thou shall haue all thy will."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

She found herself in a large square room sparsely but comfortably furnished in a style that bespake it as the former sitting-room of the dead and buried Japhas.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine

Then up bespake a little bird, That sat upon a tree: "Gae hame, gae hame, ye fause lady,35 And pay your maids their fee."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

In an email, Show Faith by Works founder Chad Schnitger said the group had since gone in a different direction and the budget has mostly gone to build a mobile museum with bespoke video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Downtown has totally changed - small businesses were replaced by bespoke steakhouses, high-end retail chains and stores selling custom cowboy hats for tourists.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

“We’re not the best answer for every single person, especially someone who wants to build a little more bespoke and custom.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Forward-deployed engineers, or FDEs, work on site with clients to implement, develop and troubleshoot bespoke solutions.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

With his fierce, frightened gaze on me I bespoke him: “Therem, my friend, there’s nothing to fear between us.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the mean time, half the tradesmen of Avignon, to say nothing of Aix, have bespoken caricatures of themselves by his hand.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

Lion" had as good as bespoken; he was so happy thus constantly occupied that he often thought—"I don't care to marry, and I cannot.

From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. by Auerbach, Berthold

Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

I saw their eyes bespeaking confusion at this raillery, sorrow to hear our liberator mocked thus, and anxiety at what His Lordship’s uncertainty might mean.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson