Example Sentences
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And at last, we get the spectacle of Mullally unleashed as the apparently dotty, sort-of wheelchair-bound mom, lisping her way to glory.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
“That was my intention — I’m a little prec-iousss about that,” he says, laughing as he drops a quick lisping impression of Gollum.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021
He gave each character such a unique voice and accent that I can still hear his lisping version of Gollum in Tolkien’s trilogy.
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2019
Without the lisping charm of Asher Keddie's Ita, Paper Giants' second – and far less historically compelling – peek into the world of female-led publishing is not much to look at.
From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2013
At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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