Example Sentences

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A thousand thanks if you will lisp never a syllable more about them.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson

Very soon Baby will think from right to left, and will lisp in the luxuriant bloom of Oriental hyperbole.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

Your manicure will lisp softly that your left forefinger reminds her so much of a gentleman's in Richmond, Va. Oh, certainly; but many a lady has to work now—the war, you know.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.