speak

Example Sentences

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She doesn’t feel comfortable speaking Spanish because she doesn’t know how to speak it anymore, even though it was her first language.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

“We cannot speak about an apocalypse,” Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport wrote on Tuesday night, recycling a word used for the failure of 2018.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem will speak at 9:05 a.m., and later Fed Gov. Michael Barr will deliver comments.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The importance of bilingualism is so high that there is an unspoken rule mandating that any Canadian leader running for prime minister speak both official languages, Larocque added.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

She takes them and starts to speak, hesitates, then says, “Mvto.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith