- present participle of speak.
speaking
Example Sentences
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But later that night she said she got a call from Brain: "He was speaking in a gentle voice and asked if I could put him to bed."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“I just interviewed 23 people,” he says, speaking over Zoom during his lunch break.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
He was speaking in public comments made at the start of a filmed session on forestry.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
But—and this is your columnist speaking, not Mr. Horowitz—a theme to emerge from the report is that Mr. Powell & Co. were too incompetent to be corrupt even if they had wanted to be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Hills, like all other geographical features, are not in the custom of speaking hellos or anything else.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
