Sentence examples for speak beginning from inspiring English sources

Marcus orders his account chronologically — from primers to Potter, so to speak — beginning with the first children's book published in the colonies, "The New-England Primer" (1689) and concluding with J. K. Rowling's record-breaking series, the only books of any kind to have their release dates celebrated at midnight festivals nationwide.

The Puritans church-goers, mid-Atlantic indentured servants, displaced European Catholics, African slaves, and Native Americans who interacted at the (so to speak) beginning of American History were obviously not individually or collectively capitalists.

His brilliant record is wiped out and he must, so to speak, begin life again.

Given my feelings of inadequacy imagine my surprise when invitations to speak began to arrive in my inbox.

Once your dog has mastered the "speak," begin incorporating "quiet" into your training sessions.

A cadre of faith leaders then spoke beginning with the local rabbis who called for remembrance and peace.

As air-conditioning became universal, those hot-weather areas, electorally speaking, began eating New York's lunch.

He sat down and, without speaking, began cleaning a pile of young green shallots that had been picked up at the market that morning, before being recognized.

The process of speaking begins with a message-level representation that captures the idea that the speaker wishes to convey.

Lanzmann reminds us that, as the interview proceeded, the barber, pressed almost cruelly by Lanzmann to go on speaking, began to lose control over his emotions.

Once the overeager cyber-speak began though, I couldn't just stop.