How To Use Speech In A Sentence

The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency. Times, Sunday Times
In her acceptance speech, the winner thanked the almighty and promised to do even better at the all-India level.
I've noticed a lot of people larding their speech with that phrase lately.
On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game. Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
Rambling, no voice projection, no point to their speech, nearly Dadaist slides. Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem

We sat in aw as we listened to Hillary's speech and wondered aloud what she's up too. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, June 2, 2008
It was also a noteworthy echo of a speech Sarkozy himself made last December, when he called for a "positive laicity" and suggested that the state could ultimately grant subsidies to religious groups. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
In the strict sense overfine speeches are yet almost everywhere. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial
The warnings that permeate Polonius's speeches derive from his misperception of controlling his daughter's sexuality.
Alex was almost speechless with rage and despair.
It was not a spine-tingling speech, the delivery was rather wooden. Times, Sunday Times
It seemed to Jordan that he was going into another long-winded speech.
She needed speech therapy after she suffered severe head injuries in a car accident.
As he completed his speech, the room echoed with applause and cheers of celebration.
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
The principles underlying political speech apply in the Internet context just as easily as they did when parchment was all the rage.
In a key speech, the Queen indicated she was willing to pay tax.
It left us both joyful and speechless, happy to be home again but sad that this great trip was over.
He has made a string of outspoken and sometimes provocative speeches in recent years.
She needed speech therapy after she suffered severe head injuries in a car accident.
Unable to defeat him by logical discussion, she fell back on her old habit of criticizing his speech.
The result is a totally incoherent agglomeration of speech-forms -- a baragouin fantastic and unintelligible beyond the power of anyone to imagine who has not heard it .... Two Years in the French West Indies
In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
George Bush developed a policy, he annunciated it in a magnificent speech 10 days after 9 / 11, and then he went into a war in Afghanistan that everybody thought was going to be impossible.
A speech therapist helped him overcome his stammer.
But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
This is only the draft of my speech, but what do you think of it?
Suddenly his speech is fluent, his laughter rich and full. Times, Sunday Times
His fleshless snout made stunted attempts at movement while he spoke, though his speech was clear and articulated.
His speech could not retain the interest of his audience.
In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
By analysis the distribute of the data in subspace, the speech and non - speech can be detected.
Edwards gave a speech which drew very heavily on his stump speech.
His speech is immature, his vocabulary limited.
“A shitstorm is itself the exercise of free speech.” Matthew Yglesias » Free Speech
I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.
They are merely exercising their right to free speech.
When you go to a conference you can sit in a room all morning and feel like you've heard all the speeches before," says Ian Usher, e-learning co-ordinator with Buckinghamshire county council and a TeachMeet organiser. Bett 2011 | In search of leadership
Other kinds of human communication [besides speech] are sometimes called language: body language, or kinesics, is one example.
Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word "cyclopean" into everyday speech? The Lovecraft News Network
It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable. Mary Marston
He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence. The White Man's Way
Even her few words of Gaelic at the start of her speech at the state dinner on Wednesday evening – "A Úachtárain agus a chairde" "president and friends", immaculately pronounced – were an unexpected gesture. Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
It is a speech that cannot fail to thrill the reader for its noble and patriotic eloquence.
Putting in a quote there breaks the flow of your speech.
He's very correct in his dress/speech/manner, isn't he?
This is the most substantive passage in a speech which otherwise is tied together by bluster. Times, Sunday Times
a pompous speech
Thank you for that magnificent speech yesterday, and it is my pleasure to ask you to address the assembled gathering.
For Modistae such as Boethius of Dacia and Thomas of Erfurt, the proper subject of grammar is well-formed, significant speech (sermo congrue significativus), the principles of which are expressed in the modi significandi. Thomas of Erfurt
His speech ended on a note of resolution.
Sleep talking can range from a word or two of gibberish, to an entire speech.
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
A speech-impeded or misunderstood/misspelled besmirchment of character “Yo mama, she a slub.” Regretsy – I Don’t
The conference closed with a short speech by the organizer.
His speech was an accurate reflection of the public mood.
The main media outlets have imposed their own, more far-reaching blackout on the case, despite its implications for civil liberties and free speech.
A forest of party flags and posters hung over Ankara as campaign buses rumbled about broadcasting music and speeches. Times, Sunday Times
_ Speech of Autolycus: — “Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie; but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; — therefore they do not _give_ us the lie.” Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
He was so drunk that he had lost the power of speech.
The first, which has even been recognised by Canadian law, is that freedom of speech should be subject to such limits so as not to be detrimental to peaceable society.
In the debate, the cockney cannily picked Derek, the professional speechwriter, to be on his side.
Recent research on deaf children has produced some interesting findings about their speech.
In a speech Tuesday, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said the north will not withdraw from Abyei, which he described as "northern Sudanese land". Monitors: North Sudan's Occupation of Abyei Was Planned
He points out that where such extreme early deprivation is followed by nurturant care there is some improvement in speech, intelligence and social skills.
Although his speech is a little delayed, he is a skilled communicator and mixes well with children and adults.
His speech was preceded by one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Times, Sunday Times
The very concept of free speech is unknown to them.
Trade union barons gave the speech rapturous applause. The Sun
For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech.
Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
He got quite emotional during the speech.
In short, this Budget, which did not correspond with the magniloquent speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, could not stand.
She was invited to deliver a speech to the young delinquents last December.
It is not idiomatic in speech or informal writing. Times, Sunday Times
Thus to this congregation of excellent, undeceiving refuge, we pray that by the power of this prayer expressed from a heart filled with fervent devotion and humility, may the body, speech and mind of the sole of the Land of Snows, the supreme Ngawang Lobsang Tenzin Gyatso, be indestructible, unfluctuating and unceasing; may he live immutable for a hundred aeons, seated on a diamond throne, transcending decay and destruction. The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama
Working in pairs or trios, students identified examples of these repetition strategies in the speeches they read.
Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
The most illuminating part of the seminar was the discussion that followed the speech.
Her speech sliced through all the confusion surrounding the situation.
In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world. To Ski Or Not To Ski
Just think, if the people who are now kvetching about freedom of speech simply posted their names on the website, then none of the speculation would have happened.
The package also offers a reserved seat for the leader's speech and a place at the conference dinner. Times, Sunday Times
The speech is an attempt to regain the initiative after criticism of his handling of a shadow cabinet reshuffle. Times, Sunday Times
If the speeches are not going well, ask Paula to speak; she can always raise a laugh.
The rest of the speech consisted largely of jingoistic bluster and attempts at political intimidation.
The news left us all speechless.
The vocal writing ranges between straightforward singing, Sprechstimme, and speech, depending on the dramatic role that the music must play.
His speech is staggered and halting, hers an energetic staccato.
This wasn't easy when his cigar, speech impediment and habit of walking about conspired to make him inaudible. Times, Sunday Times
Women typically use the speech style they do because they are in less powerful positions in relation to men.
Finally finishing her speech she uttered a few last words.
I did appreciate the 50-year-old unicyclist who drew an unamused Howie Mandel into his act and rendered him momentarily speechless. Matt's TV Week in Review
Amplified vibration can reinforce the normal rhythm of speech and can greatly assist forming the right habits.
Is radical political speech always to be conceived as forceful and polemical?
Actually, the prevailing wisdom that iambic pentameter is somehow ideal for relating the rhythms of English speech seems deeply flawed to me. Dipodic Verse : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
For the asset purchase program to be effective, it must be done on a very large scale," Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's top TARP official, said in a speech last week.
Livy (XXXII 22 1) has a _murmur_ of mingled praise and dissent following a speech: '_murmur_ ortum aliorum cum adsensu, aliorum inclementer adsentientes increpantium'. The Last Poems of Ovid
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
It also states, as I mentioned at the start of my speech: ‘In a referendum held in April-May 2002, 96.9% of wool grower respondents voted in favour of winding up the Wool Board.’
Funny, it is generally accepted as the height of sociolinguistic sophistication to shift the shiftable aspects of your speech (vowel quality being a prime example) in the direction of the speech of those you are speaking to.
The Prime Minister's fierce speech set the tone for the rest of the conference.
It is accordingly not a right to exercise liberties (such as free speech or association) within a prison's walls.
Mostly, the speeches condemn political folly and corruption of one stripe or another. The Times Literary Supplement
Both the speaker and his speech were drowned out by the disapproval of the crowd.
The Japanese language includes sharply divergent styles of speech for men and women.
In his speech he proposed that the UN should set up an emergency centre for the environment.
Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we're developing now.
She took a deep breath and plunged on with her practiced speech.
Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it. Amelia — Complete
She stared hard at the blonde, and fumbled for words, but was speechless.
I thought it was a frank and courageous speech. Times, Sunday Times
You try to talk to a fellow shopper, but your words sound garbled, and others seem confused by your speech.
Her speech played heavily on the angry mood of her audience.
I've been asked to limit my speech to ten minutes maximum.
Damage to the left hemisphere of her brain has caused a speech impediment that reminds listeners of an overseas accent. Times, Sunday Times
It basically is a lawsuit that's filed that encumbers someone's basic right to free speech.
There were speeches and the cutting of an anniversary cake.
In Bakhtin's view, people frame their speech according to the reactions they hope to produce or the impression they want to make.
The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.
Now who's the ALP pollie who can make a speech like that in Australia - and mean it?
In her speech, given when she was Colorado attorney-general, Norton did not offer support for slavery.
He has not given a speech devoted exclusively to xenophobia.
In tonight's speech, the minister is expected to hit back at critics who have attacked her handling of the crisis.
Patients with communication barriers (eg, language, hearing, speech) should be provided with an interpreter.
His speech is a mumble, his face immobile, his gait unsteady.
If they can make speech audible for the news, surely they can do it for drama. Times, Sunday Times
Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
In its speech, the metalworkers 'union demanded a transition to renewable energy and renewable energy jobs. Tina Gerhardt: Germany's Burgeoning Anti-Nuclear Movement Promises to Derail Merkel's Energy Policy
Hejazi gave a speech, which boomed from the speakers over the convocation mall, leaving cookie nibblers stunned.
Both the speaker and his speech were drowned out by the disapproval of the crowd.
The President spoke at length in a speech punctuated by applause.
He was struggling to read a funny e-mail, but it rendered him speechless, so he segued into the next song without introduction.
the report of his speech
Just been watching Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynote speech, iPhoto was just simplicity itself and the demo of iPhoto book with 10-50 full page bleeds was just awesome.
Instead, the philosophical bits are tacked on in set speeches - much like in student essays, really.
Then in English she burst into a fiery political speech.
We use Vizard Virtual Reality Software and datagloves to interact with the NPCs, developing a gesture and speech based interface.
I had a continual barrage of interjections - quite contrary to the speech of the Minister, to whom we gave a pretty fair hearing.
Shah son of Fakhr Taj thus bespake his mother, she rejoiced in his speech. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It can't remember any big speeches in which anyone compared the two favourably. Times, Sunday Times
The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Congress.
In his last letter home, Price remembers that his regimental commander assembled the regiment on V-E Day and gave a wonderful speech.
An element of the crowd began to hoot and catcall during the speeches, setting a disorderly tone for the following proceedings.
In 1976, he became a speech-writer for and protégé of Chirac.
Not many days afterwards she began to lose consciousness and lapsed into meaningless, rambling speech. Times, Sunday Times
A clot or bleeding deprives parts of the brain of blood, causing numbness, paralysis or speech loss. The Sun
I hung on his heavily accented speeches. Times, Sunday Times
-- Speech and speech-reading are regarded as very important, but mental development and the acquisition of language are regarded as still more important. The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
His impassioned defence of free speech changed the tenor of the debate.
The man stammered over his words for a moment before he finally managed to regain the power of speech.
He has an ear for the rhythm of Irish speech.
His enthusiastic speech ignited the audience.
Her speech was interrupted by angry shouts from the audience.
No one can accuse him of having cast these kids for their cuteness of speech or appearance.
At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, “Did we hear that word dismantle right?” American Sketches
Certainly, trouble talking and loss of speech are symptoms of a stroke, and you do seem to be slurring your words.
A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
The process of kinesic analysis in interviewing and interrogation is first to establish a baselinea catalog of behaviors that subjects exhibit when telling the truth: Where do they put their hands, where do they look and how often, do they swallow or clear their throats often, do they lace their speech with Uhm, do they tap their feet, do they slouch or sit forward, do they hesitate before answering? Roadside Crosses
She also examines the speed of the net, applying it to arguments about the effectivity of hate speech.
You also wonder whether your recent illness and lack of diagnosis has taken its toll on your son's ability with speech and language. Times, Sunday Times
I was there to give the keynote speech at a conference on petroleum, and I've had certain influence in the area recently.
His acceptance speech, made on the following evening, was well delivered but generally perceived as lacking in detail.
Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
For most right-handed people, the speech center is located in the left half of the brain.
The disease causes sleep disorders, mental confusion, personality changes, speech problems, seizures and coma.
Several times during the speech Perry posed for dramatic effect, once even wrapping his arms around himself and remarking in a theatrical aside: "It's the darnedest thing. CPAC 2011: The Conservative Political Action Conference (Live Coverage, Day Two)
Lena simply stared at him across the table, open-mouthed, speechless, to say the least.
Her speech made a tremendous impact on everyone.
Its flowery and elevated diction, however, deny the characters speech that approximates dialogue between real people.
The little man did not know, that time was wanted for imagination to make the roadway or riverway of a true story, unless we press to invent; his mind had been too busy on the way for him to clothe in speech his impressions of the passage of incidents at the call for them. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Telling them they have been lied to and mistreated is to ask them to frag their leaders; you are traitors to them and their leaders for engaging in this irresponsible speech.
In tonight's speech, the minister is expected to hit back at critics who have attacked her handling of the crisis.
He just gave a speech saying our costs are going down we so much we’ll be able to give them araise. The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and Pharma Stocks Rise, US Treasuries Sink in Reponse to Obama Care:
The newsreader said ‘We'll be back for more of what appears to be an ad-lib speech from Mark Oaten’.
I will limit myself to noting that the legal answer is, in my view, yes — but how you get to yes differs depending upon whether you think this particular targeting is in an armed conflict in a strict legal sense, or whether you think it is an act of legitimate self-defense, as the Legal Adviser referenced in his ASIL speech. The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen
Let me salute you with a reminiscence from a speech to this Empire Club some time ago. An Introduction to the Philippines
The Pan of the universe drives people panicky, that is they lose speech. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
His words provided some comic relief in what was really a dull speech.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
The government now seems confident that it will get the Communications Bill - which is expected to feature in the Queen's Speech in November - through the Commons unamended.
We may conclude that her ulterior motive in appearing so often on TV and her speechifying tours with her stupidities is to court favor, most recently, with Joe Lieberman. Think Progress » Coulter Derides Call For New Iraq Strategy, Endorses Lieberman Approach
A stammering child can benefit from speech therapy.
There will be champagne and smiles and nobody will read a resignation speech. The Sun
Descending into the cellar of the palace, he taped a speech agreeing to free elections and other liberal measures.
Three days later she called me and asked me not to interrupt as she read me a speech, five or six sentences, where she called me a manipulator and a liar, and said that she couldn't be with me anymore.
Are blasphemy laws compatible with free speech? Times, Sunday Times
It is estimated that by the first grade, 5 percent of children have noticeable speech disorders, the majority of which have no known cause.
Her workshop is designed to improve vocal stamina and the clarity of speech rather than get rid of our accent.
It was an interesting, if self-indulgent speech.
He was the only human they trusted enough to honor with their presence and occasional speeches.
I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
The child grows up with intimate forms of speech, but requires the deferential forms in later contact with the world.
Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
Carl heard these words from far away and though they conferred on him a feeling of complete despair they roused him briefly from his speechless stupor.
Dick was quite moved, and in his acceptance speech he named all the people who had helped make his dream come true.
His speech packed quite a punch.

How To Use Speech In A Sentence

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