Example Sentences

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His voice, slightly lisped, pinballs from story to story, often landing back at the place he started.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2022

One of the little girls handed her a copy to inscribe and lisped her name.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

One woman at a film magazine I’ll call Entertainment Twice-a‑Fortnight was particularly brutal, referring to me as “Mara Wilson, who lisped her way over‑fetchingly through Mrs Doubtfire and continues the tiresome act here.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2016

The man will go to his grave without an acting Oscar because we are all morons and monsters. From the lisped villain of Kingsman to the swaggering emcee of Chi-raq and then—finally—his career-topping role as Maj.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016

His teeth were already grinning from the glass of water next to his bedside lamp, so he lisped when he said, "Eh-speech, eh-speech!"

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez