Sentence examples for as if to speak from inspiring English sources

She also moved her lips as if to speak.

Her mouth opens as if to speak but she cannot find the words.

The players fell silent, and Mr. Naing raised his hands as if to speak but instead burst into tears.

That was the name she had assigned to her disease, and she always whispered it, as if to speak his name too loud would be to summon strength to him.

Not seeing the wounded boy, Forgeron opened his mouth several times, as if to speak, but he did not say anything except that the war was making it very difficult to find able-bodied labor.

He resented the public-school condescension from which they emanated, as if to speak in a Northern Irish accent was somehow quaint or invalid, a second-class way of talking compared with official English.

He was smiling, with his lips open, as if about to speak.

When called upon, he was intelligent, but nervous and fidgety, spitting his words out, as if having to speak up were painful.

And Emily, of course, chattered on, as if she had to speak for both of them.

But it's almost as if you have to speak in some weird Esperanto!

He ignored her and looked around, as if he expected to speak first to the adult who had brought her.