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Example sentences for "speak out"

  • What is the meaning of the very word "Protestantism," but that there is a call to speak out?

  • Accordingly, little by little, he ventured to speak out.

  • Would he speak out, and would fresh perquisitions be made?

  • Speak out, and let me know if I can depend on you," exclaimed the landlord, impatiently.

  • Speak out, young lady, and rely upon every indulgence from the court.

  • You've come here to tell a piece of news that pleases you, and yet you've not the pluck to speak out.

  • But if you want me to speak out: our Leah's engaged!

  • Speak out, if it must be told," he said with his brightest smile.

  • If a man should not do evil that good may come, so neither should he do good that evil may come; and though it were good for me to speak out, should I not do better by refraining?

  • Let him come back, speak out, and chance what might befall him.

  • Then it was the temper of the man always to speak out.

  • All of us feel this, though most of us are too timid, too scrupulous, too anxious about the virtue of others, to speak out.

  • The internal political crisis in Germany, which started at the beginning of last autumn, has come to a head because the Chancellor will not speak out.

  • It is not that scholars have not the abstract right to speak out, or that they would be dismissed once they have been appointed; rather is it that they would not be appointed or promoted.

  • Why, then, should you hesitate to speak out?

  • A believer, with ideas so advanced that his belief amounts to little more than "a reverent agnosticism" concerning the fundamental dogmas of Christianity, is still able to speak out, because while he destroys he also constructs.

  • They are beginning to speak out--why should not you?

  • Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell me--my foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

  • I thought it best to speak out at once, lest this meddling fellow should suppose there were more weighty reasons for my silence than actually existed.

  • But he has forced me to speak out, as I have done, telling you and your wife of my love for Vona.

  • If it's any matter where I can be of help, sir, you needn't be a bit afraid to speak out.

  • Vona, I did not mean to speak out to you so soon," he told her.

  • Mr. Smivvle, his whiskers growing momentarily more ferocious, "speak out, man!

  • Come, speak out,--what is your real motive?

  • But I always feel free to speak out to you any stray thought that drifts into my head--without choosing my words.

  • He roused himself from his half abstraction, said, "So--you need not be afraid to speak out whatever is in your mind.

  • It's giving me the courage to speak out a few things that've been gnawing at my insides for weeks.

  • First you want me to open the door, so that I can't speak out," sneered he.

  • Certainly," D'Artagnan said to himself, "he wishes to make me speak out.

  • You whose devotion recognizes neither country nor misfortune, you who are sent to me by Henrietta; whatever news you bring, speak out.

  • Every one nowadays wants auxiliaries; propositions have been made to me and I confess to you frankly that the coadjutor has made me speak out.

  • She put off telling him till the very last moment, but when one day a London visitor arrived she was forced to speak out.

  • He saw that the time had come for him to speak out.

  • But they were all afraid of Janet and her wicked ways, and therefore remained silent when it was their duty to speak out.

  • Hale alone could prove his innocence, and Hale refused to speak out.

  • What would you call it, then, if I was to speak out a little plainer?

  • Frank made a quick gesture as if to speak out, but Andrew checked him with a laugh.

  • I will try so hard," he said eagerly; and once more he longed to speak out, but she gave him no time, though at the last moment he would hardly have spoken.

  • The boy made a brave effort to speak out, but still no words would come.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak out" 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:
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