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How to use speak of in a sentence

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The marquee now lies in darkness, no thumping bass, or any noise at all to speak of.
Creoles speak of a phantom pirate ship seen at night, lit by flickering lanterns.
To think and speak of that day with horror doth well become the impenitent sinner, but ill the believing saint.
The familiarity and self-evidence you speak of is, of course, precisely the proper object of critical thought.
When I speak of just war criteria, I mean a specific and codified set of rules of conduct by which particular wars may be evaluated.
She has broken her silence to speak of her determination to return to the post she has held for the past 10 years.
They speak of the reciprocal of the payback period as a percent per year rate of return.
The democracy we speak of spreading throughout the world is now in our own country only an ideality.
Great civic leaders of less evangelical eras than ours did not speak of visions.
It was shaped like a block, and looked so sloppily put together, with no specific design to speak of.
It was an unworthy way for one fine champion to speak of another and many told Singh so at the time but the man himself remained unrepentant.
However, those close to him speak of a kindly, compassionate and humorous man.
When we speak of trade, we usually think of goods being shipped across borders.
His own miraculous power is seemingly well documented, though he himself was reluctant to speak of it.
I think you are denying the shock of this experience upon you because you speak of it in a dismissive sort of air.
His words speak of confidence and success while his body language indicates nervousness and discomfort.
Paul says that he can only truly speak of that which is physical not spiritual.
One can truly speak of nomenclatural chaos, even though Linnaeus's binomial system was widely employed.
I think it is significant that you use the apt example of the trustingness of a baby when you speak of the virtues of trust.
To speak of a cardinal as papabile is to say that he is thought to be a likely candidate for pope.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If he has sciatica, pleurisy or a gumboil, he can speak of his ailments and tell people what is the matter with him.
As though he had formulated the inquiry into speech the other began directly to speak of it.
Wise men use the word 'fossilized' when they speak of what has happened to it.
The young man I speak of does not want friends, who will not grudge the money.
Titles are words, and we do not speak of the historicity or the non-historicity of words.
If he talks to you about it, tell him there isn't any stuffing in me to speak of.
The thing so obsessed his mind that he must speak of it, if it be only to his lackey.
And now, in her secret vexation, she was moved to speak of the once famous Edwardian.
I speak of those Irish Presbyterians who are asking for an ex post facto law to confirm their marriages.
From now on all distinction ceases, and it is scarcely possible to speak of a Roman in contrast to a Graeco-Roman cult.
It is only those who do not understand the cotton industry that speak of hashish.
In deference to their opinion I may hereinafter, in places, speak of the hot-air bath.
Not impossibly the newspapers, though I suspect they did not employ the familiarity you speak of.
In the same way we might speak of the people of Strathclyde or of Northumbria in early English history.
I must congratulate you upon the sang-froid with which you speak of your infamies.
You see, my dear, he scruples not to speak of himself, as his enemies speak of him.
The Pythagoreans having spoken of the point as a monad naturally were led to speak of the line as dyadic, or related to two.
How near to having had enough of me you must be when you speak of me as edifying!
A science was encapsuled here which could speak of war and curiosity as discontent, but could say nothing definite of contentment.
It was so enticingly easy to speak of this rather than of that which he had on his mind.
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