smooth talk
Example Sentences
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Rubio’s smooth talk has both reassured and frustrated U.S. allies unnerved by his boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
William “Rick” Singer was already deep into runninga college admissions scam at USC when he tried to smooth talk the university’s athletic director, Pat Haden, over coffee at the Los Angeles Country Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2019
The shrewd seller, after all, succeeds by equivocation, with smooth talk and a knack for duplicity -- predatory purpose masked by easygoing amiability.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2019
But he was also fascinated by cartoonist Eddie Campbell’s character Dapper John, an archetypal English “wide boy”—a man who takes unreasonable chances and gets by through resourcefulness and smooth talk.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2014
Sensing that Forbes is not a regular guard, Booth manages to smooth talk the unsuspecting Forbes and gives him a piece of paper with some writing on it.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
