have lisped

• present perfect

  present perfect

  Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.

  of lisp.
  lisp

Example Sentences

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have lisped

Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read it a million times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both statements have lisped from the pale, thin lips of Bee County's Sheriff Robert Vail Ennis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bartlett is said to have "lisped in numbers," singing correctly before he could articulate words.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

The children were at school, so they did not see, or they might have lisped out something, and set people talking.

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Awkward fact, that the colossal Infant should have lisped in a tongue which for copiousness of diction, and subtlety of expression, absolutely remains to this hour without a rival in the world!

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon

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