Example Sentences

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Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013

Therem the younger son; Arek the elder, that brother whose voice he had heard in mine bespeaking him; both dead now.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin