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Example sentences for "speak the"

  • I know it--I am sure of it; you are not one of those people who are afraid to speak the truth.

  • Mrs. Herrick had a great respect for the straightforward, honest little woman, who was never afraid to speak the truth on any occasion, and she was sufficiently magnanimous to forgive her sharp speeches.

  • I'm sorry, but you asked me to speak the truth.

  • This he told me almost at the outset of our acquaintance; when he was ravaging my bookshelves, and a little before I was implored to speak the truth as to his chances of "writing something really great, you know.

  • She besought him, for his Soul's sake, to speak the truth.

  • Look in my face," she said, "and read from that whether I speak the truth.

  • I speak the truth, your highness, and am in a condition to prove it.

  • No, no; I speak the truth, and I swear that every one who has the good fortune to be admitted to your presence will confirm my testimony.

  • Unhappily, the world has silently resolved never to speak the truth to kings.

  • I am well pleased that you have been bold enough to speak the truth.

  • Allow me, then, to speak the simple, unadorned truth.

  • Wherefore I did labour so to speak the Word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it.

  • Wherefore I did labour so to speak the Word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sins and person guilty might be particularized by it.

  • You are going to speak the truth as you see it, and let them do their worst.

  • From his own lips I had heard how much the news had mended him, and for once I lacked the heart, nay, the courage, to speak the truth.

  • But you are going to speak the truth," she continued, her voice low and vibrating, "that is splendid!

  • I dare to speak the truth," he said, and crossed the room to where his hat was lying and picked it up.

  • And these twelve books of mine (to speak the truth).

  • The old Earl's daughter died at my breast; I speak the truth, as I live by bread!

  • For, to speak the truth, until of late years, that the heads of all the people have been set agog with politics, no better business than my own could an honest citizen of Rotterdam either desire or deserve.

  • When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.

  • It would want thousands more to speak the truth, Curdie; and then they could not.

  • If you can trust, as well as speak the truth, I will trust you.

  • Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  • Worst in this royal presence may I speak, Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.

  • It doth abhor me now I speak the word; To do the act that might the addition earn Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.

  • If you be she, I do entreat your patience To hear me speak the message I am sent on.

  • He wished much to converse with me in French, in the speaking of which language it seemed he prided himself, but I refused, and told him to speak the language of the country, or I would hold no discourse with him.

  • The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.

  • We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.

  • To speak the truth, others have talked to me of the attentions of M.

  • You know, my lord, it is one of my defects to speak the truth.

  • I speak the truth; there is no doubt about the matter, and that which cometh forth from my mouth cannot be gainsaid.

  • I speak the word[s], and the waters of the Nile appear.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speak the" 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:
    never occurred; raised from the dead; scouting party; slavery principles; speak again; speak against; speak for; speak like; speak more; speak not; speak out; speak plainly; speak the; speak unto; speak unto the house; speak well; speak with; speake vnto; speaking countries; speaking generally; speaking minorities; speaking peoples; speaks thus; thrown back; till noon; your face