Sentence examples for speak held from inspiring English sources

Once I brought him a copy of US Weekly and, too ashamed to speak, held up a photo of Orlando Bloom and wiggled my eyebrows.

A female worker for the Environmental Protection Agency, who asked to remain anonymous because she didn't have permission from her employer to speak, held a Shutdown BBQ at her apartment building Tuesday to take her mind off her worries.

The European Forum for New Ideas (where I also had been invited to speak), held concurrently in the nearby seaside resort town of Sopot bore witness to that success with over 900 business delegates from Poland joining in a well-earned festival of self congratulatory debate.

The girl was born in China with a rare and severe neurological disorder that renders her unable to speak, hold up her head, swallow or function normally.

Last week's confrontation must have been especially hard for Bill Clinton, who loves to speak, hold forth, speak some more, and further explain — none of which is possible when you can't be heard and you don't listen.

Finally, overseen by another woman, the UN's Christiana Figueres, the key negotiators were, diplomatically speaking, held hostage.

He stood alone on a practice green as he spoke, holding a putter.

Salafists, religiously speaking, hold extremist views, but also tend to hold pragmatic political positions.

Women, broadly speaking, hold some of the most unfavorable views of Trump.

At many Tory events, specially selected activists are made to stand behind Boris or Cameron or whoever is speaking, holding aloft campaign slogans.

Discursive theories, broadly speaking, hold that the aim of public justification is to generate agreement and resolution among disputants through the process of real discourse secured by just and fair social institutions.