so to speak

How to use so to speak in a sentence

• For the purpose he would make a few remarks as a basis of his "so-to-speak destructive construction of this social heterogeneity."

  The Song of Songs | Hermann Sudermann

• So I did not, so-to-speak, associate with any Russians that might have come or gone through Dallas from 1939 to about 1950.

  Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy