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Example sentences for "brief speech"

  • He presented me cordially to the audience, and at the close of my address made a brief speech, in which he thoroughly supported my positions and bade me Godspeed.

  • To Mr. Cornell's brief speech I have alluded elsewhere; my own presented my ideas more at length.

  • The culminating point of each dinner was near its close, when the chancellor rose, and, after a brief speech in French, proposed the health of the heads of all the states there represented.

  • In the evening I was serenaded at the hotel and made a brief speech to a large audience, commencing as follows: "I am very happy to be again in your midst, to see your faces and to greet you as friends.

  • On their arrival they were met by flags and music, and in response to the calls I made a brief speech.

  • On my return to the hotel I was serenaded by a band, and being introduced by Governor Dennison made a brief speech of a non-partisan character, and in closing said: "I want to make one personal remark about myself.

  • In support of this bill Mr. Benton made a brief speech, from which the following are some passages: "The bill comes to us now under more favorable auspices than it has ever done before.

  • Mr. Benton opposed this motion, in a brief speech.

  • The council was opened by me in a brief speech: 'We meet for the last time.

  • Mr. Sherman made a brief speech in explanation of the bill.

  • On the following day, February 7th, Mr. Stevens introduced the discussion with a brief speech.

  • In a brief speech he accepted the position as a tribute to the independent ground which he claimed to have long occupied in the politics of the country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brief address; brief description; brief history; brief instant; brief interval; brief moment; brief notice; brief outline; brief pause; brief period; brief silence; brief sketch; brief space; brief speech; brief statement; brief survey; brief visit; brief while; for man; glass tubing; hereunto affixed; many pages; open places; rimmed spectacles; twas only; yard gate