(a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube.
(a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(7) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) Again, the boys in care that he abused now speak to us as broken adults.
(10) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(11) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(12) The ability to demonstrate selective augmentation of the functional matrix-associated receptor population, and our recent results showing that gonadotropes are indeed the responsive cells (Singh P, Muldoon TG, unpublished observations) speak to the specificity and relevance of these findings.
(13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
(14) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(15) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(16) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(17) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(18) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(19) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Speechifying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speechify
(n.) The act of making a speech or speeches.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think of it as comparable to the difference between, say, Tony Bennett and Luciano Pavarotti ... On the set of Bones I have been amazed and impressed by the naturalness of the cast, and berate myself for sounding as if I'm speechifying instead of talking."
(2) He has the same tendency to piety, a similar style of speechifying, and the same habit of briefly acknowledging that a given issue is more complex than he himself sometimes seems to think, before making everything sound blissfully simple.
(3) He has banned self-indulgent government habits such as disruptive motorcades and endless speechifying at official events .
(4) The question is surely even more pertinent given the increasing sense that an incoming Tory government will be an altogether more austere, hard-headed set-up than Cameron's early burst of "progressive" speechifying suggested.
(5) Cameron’s legacy will be that there is no such thing as an economy The end result is that the recovery constantly boasted about by the Tories was so partial, so patchy and so dedicated to putting money in the pockets of the already wealthy that it makes a mockery of Theresa May’s speechifying this week about a “shared society” .
(6) Some of the very politicians vacillating between war-mongering and freedom-of-speechifying have wanted to pass ambiguous “cybersecurity” bills in the past that do hardly anything to increase any single company’s defenses and would have done nothing to stop the Sony attack.
(7) Certainly, Animal Farm seems, at its most literal, to be a litany of hypocrisies: from the double standards of the pigs (changing the commandment from "No animal shall drink alcohol" to "No animal shall drink alcohol to excess", the day after they have discovered the joys of whisky) to the false promises of Napoleon, their Stalin-like leader, and the sanctimony of his speechifying.
(8) •In a week-long party conference comprised mainly of soporific work reports and rhetoric-heavy speechifying, unbridled emotion has emerged as a counterintuitive motif.
(9) With its southern gothic setting and Rust's bleak, atheistic speechifying, the series looked set to descend into a bayou of supernatural intrigue, dark literary allusion and horror from which there is no return.
(10) Where this ends up is with David Cameron, that community leader for Old Etonians, speechifying in Munich about “state multiculturalism”.
(11) Texas Republicans' niggling over the picayune filibuster rules would give the plot some comic relief, too: they gave one of the "three strikes" allowed under the rules for accepting help in adjusting the back brace she wore to aid her during her marathon speechifying (senators are not allowed to lean on anything during their time).