bespeak

For the owners to even contemplate repeating that experience, especially given the heightened competition in the modern world for sports fans’ attention and viewers’ eyeballs, can bespeak only insanity or stupidity, or probably both.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

In an age whose surplus — linguistic, economic — often seems to bespeak an underlying emptiness, is it possible for “a profound experience of art” still to mean something?

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

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

I spake to Aina, saying, Aina yesterday I wishd you would bespeak an Owl for 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

The award should go to “The Zone of Interest,” a brilliantly counterintuitive adaptation that bespeaks Jonathan Glazer’s seriousness and thoughtfulness at every turn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

But his many TV roles are marked by a sense of implacable stillness that bespeaks the maturity that comes from a long career.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

“It creates debris all around. Most importantly, in a psychological sense, it bespeaks the fact that we can’t get basic services done, and that’s never a good message.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021

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 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

Then bespake him Sir Bredbeddle, These were the words said he: 255 "I coniure thee, thou Burlow-beane, Thou tell me how this steed was riddin in his country."

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

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 Cornwall King againe, These were the words said he.

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

The ferryman wax'd furious when Hagan there he found; Thus he bespake the hero, and speaking darkly frown'd.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

"It's going to be bespoke to your farm."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Jonathan Silva and his team at WS Game Company set a challenge for themselves last year: Produce a bespoke Monopoly game that was 100% made in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Apple's hope is that creating bespoke content will help to distinguish its service from competitors like Spotify and Amazon Music.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Another fan, a nail artist, crafted spooky bespoke black and purple press-ons decorated with intricate white hares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

I did not know what, besides love and death, lay between him and that brother, but I knew that whenever I bespoke him something in him winced away as if I touched a wound.

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

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

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

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

The glittering moon was not yet bespoken for the night.

From Hints to Pilgrims by Charles Stephen Brooks

After breakfast, Harold went off quickly to the office, and Ernest, having bespoken a holiday at the hospital, joined his sister and Nellie Holt in the library.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen

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

He heard my voice bespeaking him as a dead man’s, his brother’s voice.

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