Sentence examples for asked speech from inspiring English sources

As the Glasgow-born star's accent drives Americans to subtitles, we asked speech experts: is it the Scottish twang, or just his voice?

BBC News asked speech writer Brian Jenner for his tips on how to make the perfect acceptance speech.

Rarely does he ask speech to do anything as simple as clarify a point or establish a character's motivation.

Early on in the book, for example, Steinbeck has a New England farmer talking in folksy terms about Nikita S. Khrushchev's shoe-pounding (or -brandishing, depending on whom you ask) speech at the United Nations weeks before Khrushchev actually visited the United Nations.

"WHAT does a person usually sit in, Marisa?" asked the speech pathologist.

We asked a speech expert.

Mr. Lurie said Mr. Obama, then a senator, asked for speeches like those of the movie president.

To insist upon asking what speech is germane would be contrary to the very goal the University seeks to pursue.

The Philosopher's Arms asks whether speech can harm.

This conception still counts resigning, promising, asserting and asking as speech acts, while ruling out convincing, insulting and growing six inches.

Ask a speech therapist for more tips.