"speech" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a brief, earnest televised speech, he said the day had taken "thousands of lives" and generated "a quiet, unyielding anger" in the nation.
- He begins earnest speeches on health care or timber and then ends up talking about his sexual failures and who kissed whom first.
- Mr. J. E. Dunham made a brief but earnest speech.
- Then it was with gravely earnest speech which suitably affected his nephews.
- Instead of the earnest speech she gave to him and Isaac, she repeats platitudes that will reassure his parents.
- Thornburg found his son's earnest speech so naive that he could not help but burst out into laughter.
- 33 I gave earnest speeches like that when I was twelve years old.
- They parry earnest speech with banter and levity; they laugh you down, or they change the subject.
- She was flushed and a little breathless as the result of her long earnest speech.
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