fast-talking
Example Sentences
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Another famous performer didn’t have to be on set at all: Martin Scorsese, who voices a fast-talking four-armed digital fellow who looks like a monkey and works in a food cart.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
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
Together, this band of bohemians molded the modern movie business into what Kael hails as “wisecracking, fast-talking, cynical-sentimental entertainment.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
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
I came to depend heavily on Meredith but also equally on Johnny Wright, my fast-talking, hard-laughing hurricane of a hairdresser, and Carl Ray, my soft-spoken and meticulous makeup artist.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
