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your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
I detected a slight accent in his speech
her speech was barren of southernisms
his manner of speaking was quite abrupt
How To Use manner of speaking In A Sentence
- Based on that sequence, as a manner of speaking, we say or "impute" that there is a habit of drinking tea. Basic Questions on Karma and Rebirth
- She has a masterful command of the language and a manner of speaking that is precise and confident.
- In a manner of speaking I am thus brought face-to-face with my own finitude, my ‘death’ as the possibility in which I am no longer able to be anything.
- It is also, in a manner of speaking, the obverse of the spirit of adventure that drove the Conquistadors to conquer ‘the unknown’ many centuries ago.
- his manner of speaking was quite abrupt
- I tell you, Mr. Le Noir, that your manner of speaking of my betrothal is equally insulting to myself, Doctor Rocke and my dear father, who never would have plighted our hands had he considered our prospective marriage a mésalliance. The Hidden Hand
- Researchers believe that by putting microcomputers into every manmade object in the world, computers could, in a manner of speaking, sense the real world.
- He has an avuncular, precociously adult manner of speaking - like a tweedy professor with elbow patches.
- She's his partner, in a manner of speaking.
- Now 59, he retains a quiet, composed demeanor and a rapid-fire manner of speaking, but what was once an unruly shock of gray curls is now a straight corporate cut. “This Is Not Charity”
