Sentence examples for spoke came from inspiring English sources

Soon after he spoke came the first reports that the Taliban were leaving.

Still, in his dewy eyes and tremulous tones, you did feel that the passion with which he spoke came from a deeply felt sense of dismay at the idea of losing Scotland in Thursday's referendum.

Having recovered in England, he went back to his previous employer, as a loss adjuster, and a decade later he penned Journey's End, which he described as "writing about something real, about men I had lived with and knew so well that every line they spoke came from them and not from me".

But the nice thing was, the guys kept hanging in, kept hanging in, kept hanging in, then all of a sudden, bang, bang, bang". The big bang of which Altobelli spoke came in the eighth inning, when six singles, two doubles and two sacrifice flies helped OCC complete its second remarkable comeback in the last 17 days.

Her big break, so to speak, came with the starring roll opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1990 film Total Recall.

The more substantive moment, relatively speaking, came when Bernanke called Bair's foreclosure-mitigation plan a "very promising approach".

Her moment of truth, so to speak, came shortly after her mother died in 1999.

Even in mundane descriptions, my Grandpa Bill's manner of speaking came through on the page.

It really scuppered the aliens, who, broadly speaking, came in peace but had no way to express it, and whose diplomats were shot down with customary Earth gusto.

The irony of that: during Gingrich's speech, the familiar Republican attack on Obama, that he uses a teleprompter when he speaks, came up once again.

My odyssey, so to speak, came to an end at a farmhouse in West Putford, Devon, in England's far southwestern corner.