Sentence examples for speak like a from inspiring English sources

The phrase "speak like a" is not correct or usable in written English.
You could use the phrase "speak as if" instead. For example, "He spoke as if he knew all the answers."

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Or, you speak like a Spanish cow.

"You, too — you speak like a foreign tourist," he said.

Having run a sawmill, he can speak like a logger.

I speak like a Bombay boy; it is how I am identified in Kanpur and Kansas.

When kids asked me why I "speak like a girl", I'd tell them: "Maybe this is just how I talk".

You wounded me, you are destroying me, and I'm supposed to speak like a good, well-brought-up wife?

He will speak like a manager in control, a good place to be as long as a team is winning.

Like many children this production of "Frankenstein" has more original things to say before it learns to speak like a grown-up.

Still, he dreamed of a "pure thought of pure difference," even if it dies away when one begins to speak, like a dream upon waking.

His goal, he said, was not to speak like a native, but to learn the basics of as many languages as possible while his brain was still pliant.

For the role, she took lessons to "speak like a white person", with more refinement than the "broken and bushy" country vernacular envisaged earlier in writing.

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