VERB
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speak louder; raise one's voice
The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up -
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.
