"speech" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Consecutively interpreted speeches, or segments of them, tend to be short.
- His mind was still sharp, though his speeches tended to flounder and get lost in their own arguments if they went on too long.
- Further, his speeches still tend to be longer on flag, family and anti-Dukakis zingers than anything else.
- Distinguishing characteristic: Their speech tends to be clear, fast and loud.
- Mr. Dole's brief speeches tend to stick to the here and now.
- Since the war, the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours.
- This incautious speech by no means tended to appease the ferocity of the crowd.
- However, current informal American speech tends to use the simple past: Did you eat yet?
- He had found that it was not the sound, but the thought that counted; the speech tended to focus the thought suitably.
- (Polite speech tends to be less differentiated, with male speech becoming more similar to female).
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.