Sentence examples for spoken down from inspiring English sources

I don't like being spoken down to".

BANKERS, erstwhile masters of the financial universe, are not used to being spoken down to.

He was softly spoken, down to earth, yet incredibly idiosyncratic and, well, Pythonesque.

"It's nice because I feel like I'm not being spoken down to," she said.

"Ninety-five percent of the time I feel most kids are spoken down to".

But these last words spoken down mobile phones, reported to us by the bereaved, are both more haunting and true.

"She spoke down to us".

He didn't speak down to his children.

Sometimes you wish he'd tell them to speak down.

I thought both candidates did a great job in not speaking down to the American people.

Will they ever consider the cultural constraint they impose on American readers by speaking down to translation?