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
As always, he’s a blunt, far-reaching, fast-talking rapper who’s determined to engage on multiple fronts: political, cultural, mythmaking, cybernetic, sardonic and — now more than ever — personal.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
He was a stout, fast-talking Frenchman with mismatched eyes—-one brown, the other blue—who rarely went out without his surgeon’s cap.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
