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speak up

VERB
  1. speak louder; raise one's voice
    The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up
  2. express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
    John spoke up at the meeting

How To Use speak up In A Sentence

  • The extravert needs to learn to slow down, but the introvert needs to learn to speak up. When Innies Love Outies: How Odd Couples Cope
  • The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up
  • Trained volunteers help those with learning difficulties ‘speak up for themselves’ in disputes, whether they are legal wrangles or a disagreement with a neighbour.
  • I gotta speak up for two things though — tofu and legwarmers. I Don’t Understand « Bored Mommy
  • We have to get off our duffs, get our noses out of the TV, and get our children to speak up.
  • And the path to power is not dominance over others but the ability to speak up for oneself.
  • Amid the brouhaha of raised voices I didn't dare speak up — in Scots-accented French — to suggest more sedentary but perhaps more efficacious means, such as a lawyer's letter. It's Lights, Camera, Strike in France
  • Or, rather, those drunken scorners who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [Maurer] (Isa 28: 7-11, 13, 14, 22; 29: 20); in this view, translate, "speak uprightly" (agreeably to the divine law); not as English Version, referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Keep calm, speak up and graduation day will still be in sight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Please speak up so that the people at the back of the room can hear you.
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