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Example sentences for "speak like"

  • You mustn't speak like that," I said, stopping my ears.

  • I was fully aware that it was unnatural for a girl in a modern Russian town to speak like a prophetess in ancient Israel, but that was just why I liked it.

  • It must sound very strange for me to speak like that; but, you don't know how I have been teased about these Harpers.

  • Still I daresay it's true that common people often do speak like that, when you come to think of it.

  • Father, dear, don't speak like that of Christopher Lisle.

  • Claude could not be happy to speak like that.

  • Mary, dear, I must request that you will not speak like this," said Claude, very gravely.

  • Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers Into your favor.

  • If I speak like myself in this, let him be whipp'd that first finds it so.

  • Go, knock and can; he'll speak like an Anthropophaginian unto thee.

  • As for Katie, she said, with anger, "What right had she to speak like that?

  • I think he’d like me to speak like you, if I could manage it.

  • When you go out I take a book and read aloud, and try to speak like you; but I cannot learn all at once.

  • And then she cast down her eyes again, and said, submissively, “I will try not to speak like that.

  • By all the Saints and all the devils, don't speak like that, my friend," exclaimed Catherine.

  • It's harder to dine than to speak like a gentleman.

  • Oh, please don't speak like that of your mother!

  • I think you are very unkind to speak like that, and silly as well,' she said quickly.

  • Do I know what it was in me that made me speak like that, that compelled me to speak like that?

  • You are frank," he said, forcing himself to adopt her tone, though it was difficult for him to speak like that.

  • Morton dear, I can't bear to talk to you to-night; and don't speak like that of May.

  • I shouldn't speak like that to anyone else.

  • And, even if you don't think so, Gerrit, it's not nice of you to speak like that of your sister!

  • Of a sudden, she became very sincere, with Gerrit: "Did I speak like that?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    despatch from; feeble health; geometrical ratio; had spoken; hear that; more particular; speak again; speak calmly; speak evil; speak first; speak like; speak more; speak not; speak plainly; speak properly; speak the; speak them; speake somewhat; speake vnto; speaking countries; speaking generally; speaking minorities; speaking race; speaks thus; specie payments; told about