Sentence examples for spoke still from inspiring English sources

The phrase "spoke still" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be an attempt to convey that someone spoke quietly or calmly, but it is not a commonly used expression. Example: "Even in the midst of chaos, she spoke still, calming everyone around her."

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Beyond classroom presentations and discussions, students had opportunities to practice conversing through an interpreter with patients who spoke still other languages.

Woods coughed occasionally as he spoke, still feeling lingering symptoms from a flu he caught last month.

At the time, he leaned forward in a booth at his sports cafe in Stamford, Conn., as he spoke, still exasperated more than a decade later.

For all his erudition, for his wealth of experience that eclipsed many of our own (or at least mine), and for his acerbic wit and his mastery of English prose, he was still with us as he spoke, still as if sitting beside us with his whiskey and a burning cigarette.

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Thought him still speaking; still stood fixed to hear.

He slips into art-history speak, still talking at warp speed.

"Refined," as Wilson notes, originally meant "processed," and, gastronomically speaking, still does.

The fate of "Starry" is, so to speak, still up in the air.

But Voyager 1 magnetic field measurements show that the spacecraft is still traveling through the magnetic field of the sun and strictly speaking still within the heliosphere.

Because we are here, still able to speak, still able to question.

As usual, though, Scott spoke loudest, still clearly irked.

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