Sentence examples for only when spoken from inspiring English sources

Dearth talks only when spoken to.

You will speak only when spoken to, even when interacting with babies and family members.

Instead Winnie speaks only when spoken to, and otherwise keeps filling her notebook.

These are cufflinks that will speak only when spoken to, will be neither seen nor heard.

Dirac grew up an introvert, spoke only when spoken to, and used words very sparingly though with utmost precision in meaning.

He speaks only when spoken to, and mostly parrots what people say to him, though he seems to have something invested in Mitch's getting "back in the game".

They switched off the radio only when speaking with a client, and they lowered the volume when their boss was around.

A manic, fast-talking man who waves his hands around like a caffeine-addled Benihana chef, Sir Ivan turns negative only when speaking about rap and hip-hop, which he calls a violence-inducing genre.

The use fictionalist can, with no real loss, employ them more selectively: it is only when speaking within the fiction that we rely on them.

But this camouflage was stitched together to be worn only when speaking to the American public, policymakers, and the mainstream media; when addressing their religious followers, ID proponents invariably revert to their overtly creationist vocabulary (Hartwig 1995).

It was only when speaking to some of the adults in the crowd that the sense of hope dissipated.