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Example sentences for "spoken"

Lexicographically close words:
spoils; spoilsmen; spoilt; spoke; spoked; spokes; spokeshave; spokesman; spokesmen; spokest
  1. He did this without spoken words, yet with an ingratiating manner.

  2. Winona low and fervently, as if she had spoken the words under far more solemn auspices.

  3. So far from this being the case, fully half of the entire mass remains, including portions of that central depression which has been spoken of.

  4. Three of from five to seven tons' weight are spoken of as carried half a mile, and one of probably twenty tons is seen about a quarter of a mile below the place whence it evidently has been torn.

  5. He shows unmistakable displeasure if the possibility of her departure is spoken of, and this morning, without the slightest remark on my side, he proposed to me that she should remain here permanently as my companion.

  6. Jessie has, then, already spoken of this project, and you feared my refusal.

  7. Not to me; I was only a few weeks in New York, but it was often spoken of in the German family where I lived.

  8. Hard and heartless though these words might sound, they were spoken with perfect sincerity.

  9. I have not spoken much with her; she seems very shy and reserved.

  10. I would"--here he suddenly dropped the English in which he had spoken to the American, and relieved his mind with a few strong German curses.

  11. Jenkins tells me he has already spoken of it to you, and yesterday I gave you the correspondence to look over, so you must now be pretty well up in the subject.

  12. Frida, on the other hand, listened with breathless excitement to the words which bore such singular resemblance to those which, weeks ago, she had spoken to her father.

  13. As yet you have scarcely spoken together.

  14. Frida gave no spoken contradiction to the lesson he condescended to give her, and which chilled her inmost heart.

  15. Their children were baptized in Christ Church as legitimate children, and in a deed executed three or four years after 1730 they are spoken of as husband and wife.

  16. His lordship raised the question in the House of Lords in a grand oration, parts of which are still spoken by our school-boys, and he followed it by other speeches.

  17. No American, and certainly no Englishman, has ever spoken so well of the French.

  18. In the correspondence I have quoted, the usurer, rather than his victims, is spoken of as the cause of the misery, and no mention is made of gambling.

  19. Mr. Jean De la Porte is spoken of as an officer; had he been of that rank he would not have been in the prison, but out on parole.

  20. Locally it was frequently spoken of and written about as the Norman Cross Prison, or the Norman Cross Barracks, or even Yaxley or Stilton Barracks.

  21. Never since I was born,” she said, “have I been spoken to like this!

  22. There was a baby born to be a brother to the child; and whilst he was so little that he never yet had spoken a word, he stretched his tiny form out on the bed, and died.

  23. He had no sooner spoken than the earth opened and the genie lifted him up to the surface, and immediately disappeared.

  24. At the age of forty-five Monte Irvin was not ill-looking, and, indeed, was sometimes spoken of as handsome.

  25. Mrs. Sin was well known in certain Bohemian quarters, but was always spoken of as one speaks of a pet vice.

  26. Sir Lucien's protegee of today was London's idol of tomorrow, and even before Rita had spoken to him she had fought and won a spiritual battle between her true self and that vain, admiration-loving Rita Dresden who favored capitulation.

  27. He had spoken to several pickets, and had gathered no news of interest, except that none of them had seen Chief Inspector Kerry since some time shortly before dusk.

  28. He remains outside the curtain and the words are spoken to the audience like an epilogue.

  29. The Land of Heart's Desire," besides some mending in the details, has been thrown back in time because the metrical speech would have sounded unreal if spoken in a country cottage now that we have so many dialect comedies.

  30. But from time to time he stopped, without turning round, to let her keep up with him, and she made her way forward with difficulty, her heart beating with the excitement of having for the first time spoken to him in violence.

  31. She had spoken up to this moment without vehemence or outward sign of emotion, gently, reasoningly, only trying to explain.

  32. She had hardly spoken when a sharp, firm ring at the door vibrated through the summer night.

  33. She had not spoken to him again after that scene in the library, the day before his interview with Morris; and a week had elapsed without making any change in her manner.

  34. Most decidedly, you should have spoken to me first.

  35. It seems to me that you have spoken to me several times.

  36. I wish you had never spoken of me to him; I never asked your help!

  37. About a year after this, the accident that the Doctor had spoken of occurred; he took a violent cold.

  38. Nor would she have spoken to anybody else upon the subject.

  39. But here Aunt Euphemia had descended upon her as unexpectedly as the Day of Wrath spoken of in Holy Writ.

  40. Then Oliver blamed his sleepy head that he had not spoken again about the wolf.

  41. He had given himself no time to calculate the significance of the words he had used, and they were no sooner spoken than he knew intuitively that he had at least in part betrayed his father.

  42. He knows those three,' said the General, voicelessly, and without a spoken word reached forward and took the crumpled page from Jervase's unresisting hand.

  43. Your father has paid everything, and there is not a word to be spoken by anybody, ever any more.

  44. No, sir,' said Polson more sternly than he had ever spoken in his life till then.

  45. I have already spoken of system in their proceedings.

  46. He came in contact with philosophers of both the Epicurean and Stoic schools, and it was these philosophers who took him to the Areopagus, saying: "May we know what this new teaching is which is spoken by thee?

  47. From Mooswa to Wapoos each one of the Dwellers as his name was spoken stepped forward in the circle and saluted the King.

  48. The Government had spoken its mea culpa with full consciousness of its fault.

  49. Frankenberg, beginning to doubt, asked of Bismarck an explanation, and was assured that "the interview of which you have spoken between Count Tauffkirchen and the Cardinal Secretary of State will hardly be revoked.

  50. The person spoken of in this letter of Pope Pius VII.

  51. The Archbishop of Turin was banished and died in exile for having spoken in reproof of these unwarranted usurpations.

  52. But this is the first time I have spoken of it to any one.

  53. She was under the impression that Kamaiakan had approached and spoken with her, but of that she was not certain.

  54. Here was the spot where she had stood on the day of the ice carnival, when that woman who was called Martha the Mare, and who said that she had known her father, had spoken to her.

  55. Also that lie weighed upon her mind, although it had been spoken in a good cause; if it was good to save a wretched fanatic from the fate which, were the truth known, without doubt her crime deserved.

  56. To this his father answered hastily that the less it was spoken of the better, therefore he proposed to tell Adrian late that night only, when he could make up his mind whether he would accompany them or stay in Leyden.

  57. Why had he not spoken to her before, and put her beyond the reach of such accidents as these to which a woman of her position and substance must necessarily be exposed?

  58. This question I foresaw, and that is why I asked the Senora, to whom the woman is alleged to have spoken the words, to accompany me here to give evidence.

  59. Back flew his mind to the scene of their betrothal, and the awful words that she had spoken then re-echoed in his ears.

  60. As he had but recently come to Leyden, very little was known about this attractive cavalier beyond that he was well spoken of by the priests and, according to report, a favourite with the Emperor.

  61. As well might she have spoken to a statue.

  62. Yes, and if I had spoken them they would have meant a great deal, but in Adrian's mouth I think no more of them than if they came from some angry woman.

  63. Not until I have spoken to you," he said.

  64. Had he not spoken of some entanglement in Spain and of children?

  65. Had he spoken to me I might have been better able to advise him.

  66. On examining the tub I have spoken of, we found that it was formed from the spathe of the palm.

  67. And I will remember what Mallet said--he has more feeling than any of you; I did not expect him to have spoken as he has, for I treated him always worse than any of you.

  68. I have often spoken of it as an epidermis, but I do not believe that such is its nature.

  69. From the very start, he had a feeling that Dally kept a special eye on him, and yet he was rarely spoken to except when questions were passed around.

  70. A word spoken kindly made him eager to comply, and that was particularly the case if it came from some person not given to sentimentality.

  71. In the lower grades it had been spoken of with bated breath.

  72. Popularly it is still spoken of as "The City.

  73. Boys who had hardly spoken to each other before broke into heated discussions or formed belated friendships.

  74. It consisted of the words spoken by Aunt Brita: "Keith will have to start it all over again from the beginning.

  75. The worst fight he had ever fought with himself was raging within him, and while he heard every word that Murray uttered, they seemed to pass him by as if spoken to some other person.

  76. I had always heard you spoken of as a man with common sense, Mr. Snyder.

  77. Mrs. Pickett had not spoken a word since she had brought the policeman into the room, and she did not do so now.

  78. Many people consider that Dante has spoken the last word on the post-mortem housing of the criminal classes.

  79. There are many excellent words spoken in uneducated speech and dialect all about us, which would be valuable additions to our standard vocabulary if they could be given currency in it.

  80. French fort without even the advantage of either keeping the French sound or distinguishing the spoken word from our fort; but who proposes to sacrifice the reader's convenience by correcting the 'ignorant' spelling?

  81. But he had spoken of a trip to Russia--in a vague way.

  82. While in these thoughts I have spoken of men, I have used the term generically.

  83. I have spoken of woman being the "last of creation.

  84. The last words were spoken with a soft and tranquil smile--a smile in which glazing eyes and agonising hearts had often beheld the ghastly omen of the torture and the stake.

  85. Ximen, I have spoken to thee as the foolish speak; thou mayest betray me to thy lord; but from what I have learned of thee from our brethren, I have poured my heart into thy bosom without fear.

  86. He was in one of the many vaults which made the mighty cemetery of the monarchs of Granada; and before him stood the robed and crowned skeleton, and before him glowed the magic dial-plate of which he had spoken in his interview with Muza.

  87. He had spoken to Peel, and told him exactly what I intended him to say, neither more nor less, giving it as given to him by a friend of his own.

  88. Gore said that upon a former occasion, when Lord John had spoken in such a spirit to Peel, he had been met by him in such an ungracious manner that it was impossible for him ever to do so again.

  89. Got a letter from the Duke of Bedford, in which he says, 'John has been here for the last week and has spoken very freely and openly to me on the state of our foreign relations.

  90. Lyndhurst was very hoarse, having just made a long speech in support of his former judgement; but the Chancellor and Devon had spoken against, and Brougham was prepared to side with them.

  91. Roebuck is said to have spoken very moderately.


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoken" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    articulate; colloquial; common; conversational; enunciated; everyday; familiar; informal; lingual; linguistic; oral; parol; pronounced; said; sonant; sounded; speech; spoken; traditional; uneducated; unstudied; unwritten; uttered; verbal; vernacular; vocal; voiced; vulgar


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    spoken language; spoken unto; spoken words