speak for

VERB
  1. be a spokesperson for
    He represents the Government's position
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How To Use speak for In A Sentence

  • Ishmael would speak for them at midcentury in Moby Dick, as he dismissed learned commentary on cetology, called on Jonah and seamen with callused hands for support and declared the whale a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
  • While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
  • Some one, somewhere, must speak for golf - and maybe slap a few wrists.
  • There are a number of cases which are referred to here and most of these speak for themselves.
  • Does this warthog actually have the cajones to dare speak for God??? Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.
  • If you're a heavy user, these numbers should speak for themselves but you'll have to keep your landline to receive incoming calls.
  • In so far as she possibly can, she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves, without addition to their number.
  • We don't see him behind the wheel of the slick electric vehicle, but vehicle dynamicist Tesla-speak for test driver Graham Sutherland sings the car's praises in the Wired Top Stories
  • The baptism begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renouncing Satan, blowing three times in the air, and spitting three times on the floor.
  • Unlike the Tories who are a regional party of the English shires, we can truly say we speak for the wider community in Britain.
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