fast-talking

Example Sentences

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Drama is his reason for being: This fast-talking, acne-scarred lizard is forever slipping out of tight corners, usually setting himself up for even worse trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

On its face, the film appears to be a comedic retread of the classic thriller, finding humor in Paul’s predicament and amplifying it by portraying Annie as a fast-talking, semi-neurotic Brooklynite.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025

Her legacy stands in the pantheon of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, a fast-talking screwball woman who protests, “Too many guys see me as a concept.”

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2024

These range from a fast-talking American man, to the posh English female voice that my husband was talking to.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

My whole life, I ran around letting people pick on me, laughing it off when they teased me, fast-talking my way out of fights.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes