"speech" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their speech, and the clutter of empty bottles on the table, betrayed that they were somewhat the worse for drink.
- Both were big, raw-boned men whose speech betrayed little formal education, especially that of the craggy-faced Brantner.
- His grandparents came illegally from lost Trinidad, but his speech does not betray them.
- For she was, obviously, one of those beauties so prevalent nowadays, the sort whom speech betrays.
- His speech betrayed the Welshman, although he left his native hills when very young.
- And while the boat was stopped, a coastguardsman talked to the operator to see if his speech betrayed any sign of drunkenness.
- Some of the men who were there and who professed knowledge in such matters, declared that this man's speech betrayed him for an Englishman.
- Only speak as little as may be, for your speech may betray you.
- His face had a kind of inner light, and his speech betrayed no consciousness that he was out of the common.
- She might be rustic in type, but her speech betrayed some little education better than that of a village school.
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