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
No amount of fast-talking can disguise that, no attempt at a three-card trick is going to fool a single fan at this point.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 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
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
