Example Sentences

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She is three years old, is lisping funny baby talk and bubbling with laughter.

From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean

I will sing it if you like," said Mirah, "but I don't sing real words—only here and there a syllable like hers—the rest is lisping.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

Ask of the arching skies, The grass that waves on their leafy graves is lisping their lullabies, And the lives they spent are their monument and their title to Paradise.

From Songs of the Prairie by Stead, Robert J. C.