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 PG-13 lyrics are lisped and gulped into sonic oatmeal.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2016
With a sigh, Amarante lisped, “Jose Mondragon is irrigating his old man’s beanfield over there on the west side.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
