Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "speak about"

  • We speak about truths or facts as being certain, and we ought to mean by that, not how we think about them, but what they are in the evidence on which they rest.

  • Some people shrink from them, and say that it is trenching upon the central doctrine of the Gospel, when we speak about drinking of the cup which Christ drank of.

  • Allow me not to speak about that," he said, looking round for his hat.

  • Count Ivan Michaelovitch was also going to speak about it.

  • Don't speak about it, Lydia dear," said her mother.

  • He frowned, and in order to change the subject began to speak about Shoustova, who had been imprisoned in the fortress and was now set free through the influence of Mariette's husband.

  • They sit with me, and bring their little notes with questions that they scarcely dare trust themselves to speak about.

  • As for us clergy, everywhere but in Norfolk Island, we must know that people are thinking of matters which all were content a few years ago to keep back in silence, and that they expect us to speak about them.

  • I have a little thing to speak about," he said at last, "which I hope will not offend you.

  • She was the first to speak about Mr Crawley's supposed guilt.

  • John remembered how holy was the errand upon which he was intent, and gathered his thoughts together, resolving that having so great a matter on his mind he would think about nothing else and speak about nothing at all.

  • But, conscious that she herself had grown handsomer, and that Dolly's eyes were telling her so, she sighed and began to speak about herself.

  • This was one of the things he had meant to speak about.

  • I don't like--I'm almost unable to speak about this to her.

  • We do not need to be hypocritical when we speak about money in the Church; but both the charity and the business of the Church must be transacted as Christian, and not as secular, affairs.

  • There is a kind of profanity in forcing the heart to show itself too far, in compelling a man to speak about, even though he does not divulge, the things that it is not lawful to utter.

  • If he has something on his mind which it is difficult to speak about, but which cannot be suppressed, we may expect him to keep it to the end, and to introduce it, perhaps, with awkward emphasis.

  • No right-minded man will, without provocation, speak about himself, but Paul is doubly protected.

  • Widow, I have come to speak about a matter of importance," he answered.

  • Not only were the ladies there, but they both saw him, and Lady Nora gave a half-nod of recognition, and then turned to her companion, as if to speak about him.

  • I dare not trust myself to thank you as I ought, or to speak about it.

  • We will never talk of this again, if you please; and I beg and entreat you will never speak about it to any other person.

  • All I want him to do is to help me (if he can) to speak about a delicate subject to Miss Gwilt, without hurting her feelings.

  • If I am not to speak about it to Bashwood, I must and will go to the Sanitarium, and find out whether she is or is not there, from the doctor himself.

  • You have never heard me speak about religion, but you would be gravely mistaken if you thought I had no religious convictions.

  • I have come to speak about Horace,' said Nancy, at once.

  • I've something rather important to speak about, father,' Horace began, when he had puffed for a few minutes in silence.

  • I knew it wasn't exactly a subject you cared to speak about--to strangers," he replied.

  • I don't want to speak about her; I hate gossip," said Charlotte impatiently.

  • I don't speak about it to mamma, because she told me it was better to fight down such feelings in my own heart, and I could see it really made her unhappy.

  • That led him to speak about Brun's Tiger.

  • Lady Adela had intended to speak about Breton--now, suddenly, she could say nothing.

  • To speak about an immanent purpose is very good sense; but to speak about a purpose behind which there is no Will is nonsense.

  • When one comes to speak about success, courage and patience and strength and hard work are as necessary to ensure it there as they are here in Scotland.

  • I never meant to speak about it," said he.

  • They had many things to speak about, after a ten days' separation, which had not occurred more than twice before in all their married life, and soon they came round to their new servant.

  • But Seth tells me there's no hope o' that: your feelings are different, and perhaps I'm taking too much upon me to speak about it.

  • I can't speak about it to them as are i' the place o' your parents, for that might bring worse trouble than's needful.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    battle against the children; ceremonial occasions; definite amount; inland seas; present tense; rocky bottom; shed abroad; speak about; speak against; speak falsely; speak frankly; speak freely; speak not; speak unto; speak well; speake vnto; speaking countries; speaking generally; speaking minorities; speaking people; speaking race; speaking slowly; speaking very; speaking world; spiritual world; want him