Sentence examples for phrase speaking from inspiring English sources
The phrase "speaking truth to power" is probably one of most common quotes cited by Comment is free posters - "ad hominem" and "Godwin's Law" not withstanding.
And on a five-day visit to South Waziristan in December as a guest of the FC a rare privilege for a foreigner and in interviews with Wazirs and Mehsuds in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore, your correspondent was struck by how many used this phrase, speaking of the crises that periodically buffet the frontier as a "game", and themselves, through their alliances with one power or another, as "players".
Start three sentences with the same phrase, speaking louder each sentence.
Every phrase speaks; every note counts.
Never was a truer phrase spoken.
(Although in my years as a copy editor I certainly never heard the phrase spoken aloud).
The phrase spoke to her professional drive, but also to her sense of gratitude.
Its Hebrew title comes from the biblical phrase, "speak the truth to one another".
(Kennedy, in a crucial phrase, spoke of the right to attend "or not attend" the church of one's choice).
The article also misspelled a word in a French phrase spoken by Mr. Grey as a greeting to a neighbor.
As Arundhati Roy writes: "Isn't there a flaw in the logic of that phrase – speak truth to power?
