Sentence examples for was speaking like from inspiring English sources

I nodded, not knowing why a doctor was speaking like this.

This must be how she finally understood why people always smirked when she thought she was speaking like everyone else.

"With my peers and people my age, I'll tell them they aren't thinking with common sense, and they'd say I was speaking like their grandmother would speak.

He was speaking like a 19th-century person - he essentially was a 19th-century person - and you don't give details of women's troubles over the phone, especially when the worst gossip in the street [Murray's aunt Jane] is running the phones".

That was spoken like a patron, as the riders call the dominant rider who sets down the informal rules of the race.

Eliot Cohen, a former top official in the second Bush White House and a Trump critic, tweeted that the president's post was "spoken like a petulant 10-year-old".

They were speaking like little people, not kids, back and forth, a real discussion.

The trick is to sing bossa nova as if you are speaking, like João Gilberto did.

Don't expect me to be speaking like this, do you?

She's speaking like the mother of a junkie who never gave up on her son.

"We're speaking like the headlines in newspapers – you know, 'the Queen arrives in Glasgow' … Well, she arrived in Glasgow six hours ago.