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speech

When we have speech, we have the ability to speak. Speech is a special human ability. When we give a speech, we speak to a group of people. He gave a speech to all of the students in his class.

speech

(= address) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience he listened to an address on minor Roman poets (= spoken language, language) (language) communication by word of mouth his speech was garbled he uttered harsh language he recorded the spoken language of the streets something spoken he could hear them uttering merry speeches the exchange of spoken words they were perfectly comfortable together without speech (= manner of speaking) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally his manner of speaking was quite abrupt her speech was barren of southernisms I detected a slight accent in his speech (= lecture, talking to) a lengthy rebuke a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline the teacher gave him a talking to (= words) words making up the dialogue of a play the actor forgot his speech (= language) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals

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Simple sentences

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.
Tom's speech was excellent.
Your speech was far from satisfactory.
One is judged by one's speech first of all.
His speech bored me.
His speech was too short.
His speech got awfully boring.
She translated the speech from Chinese into German.
Tom won't be making a speech today.
Tom gave his speech in French.
Tom's speech was mediocre.
What if you gave a speech and nobody came?
There is a fine line between speech that is terse and to the point and speech that is too abrupt.
Astonishment deprived me of speech.
The professor's speech was full of humor.
Fear robbed him of speech.
I had little time to prepare the speech.
Are you going to take part in the English speech contest?
The following is a summary of the President's speech.
Ever louder voices of protest drowned out his speech.
Your speech will be recorded in history.
The ceremony began with his speech.
Music is a common speech for humanity.
Slow speech is characteristic of that man.
They were most attentive to his speech.
Mr White made a few comments on my speech.
Miss Pate felt timid about making a speech before a hundred people.

Movie subtitles

Rebecca, making a speech like that in front of a potential client, that. was brave.
My health insurance only covered 10 sessions with a shrink and 10 sessions with a speech therapist, but now. now it's maxed out, and it's all on me.
I have the right to free speech.
Samlak interrupts Menon's speech,. and asks to be escorted to Pharaoh.
Sore from constant speech, throats breathe heavily and unevenly.
And the girls called for a speech.
Speech. Speech. Big speech.
Speech. My good, good friends, if I could only tell you. how rosy-hued everything seems to me tonight.
I feel highly honored, but I'm afraid I'm not much of a speech maker.
Scabby's gonna make a speech.
Speech! Speech!
Hoarse from continuous speech throats breathed heavily.
You birds want me to make a speech?
I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.
That's a very polished little speech for a. barbarian.
Tell them I'm gonna make a speech.
All right, guys, I'm making a speech.
Hating school and teased by classmates because of a serious speech impediment, he ran away at a very young age.
But in addition to a broad cockney accent and a stutter, Rains had other speech problems.
He took elocution lessons, did voice and speech exercises, and worked on them with great intensity.
He made his adult acting debut as Claude Rains in 1911, again at the Haymarket Theatre, his voice and speech problems conquered.
Remember that speech about beginning with a few murders, here and there?
Come on, skipper. Make him a friendly speech.
Speech. Speech.
Big speech. Speech.
And as I said before, I hadn't intended to make a speech at all.
I gave all the reporters a copy of my speech.
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL SPEECH! MAGNIFICENT!
MAN: Speech, Jerry!
Time for a little speech.
Speech.. speech.. speech.. speech!

News and current affairs

Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
Doctors are on strike, taxes are on the rise, the parties in government are mauling each other, and Chancellor Angela Merkel herself proclaimed in a prominent speech that the country is in disastrous shape.
Merkel announced in her inaugural speech in the Bundestag that her government will introduce such a system in 2006.
ROME - US President Barack Obama's major speech on the consequences of the Arab Spring is also a challenge for Europe.
Obama's Cairo speech, delivered on one of his first foreign trips, promised a new US-Arab beginning, and certainly invigorated Arab democrats.
The same people that Obama had called on in his Cairo speech to seek democracy had now formed the most important nonviolent movement the world had seen in decades.
Indeed, he devoted almost the entire speech to the positive role of government in providing education, fighting climate change, rebuilding infrastructure, taking care of the poor and disabled, and generally investing in the future.
In a recent speech to the French defense industry, Sarkozy conspicuously failed to repeat the pledge, instead warning that he soon might cut France's defense budget.
Bush may naively consider it lying, and therefore wrong, to say that he is in California when he is recording a speech in Washington.
Then he said that the CIA had cleared his speech, as if that absolved him of all responsibility.
It is true that democracies always find it difficult to balance their commitment to human rights with their commitment to free speech: it is a delicate path to tread, and there is no easy answer on a legal and constitutional level.
To be sure, every country places some limits on speech.
In a democracy, standard restrictions regulate the time, place, and manner of speech in order to prevent imminent violence and civil disorder.
Why, then, do many countries prosecute the hate speech of racists?
If the British unions wanted to be ethically consistent, they should apply the same strategies to universities in the numerous countries where human rights are brutally abused and free speech suppressed.
Democratic societies depend not only on the foundational principle of free speech, but on the character of political thought and conversation among various constituencies.
This is why so many threads of discussion turn from potentially interesting citizen speculation to hate speech and paranoia.
Indeed, after Thomas Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year, he cited it as a precedent in his acceptance speech.
The potential candidates have already sought to stake out their positions on key foreign-policy issues, with early Republican frontrunner Jeb Bush, for example, delivering a speech devoted entirely to the topic.
When Obama attracted a crowd of 200,000 to a speech in Berlin last summer, Republicans criticized him as an elitist who appeals to crowds overseas but not to blue-collar workers at home.
Politicians often change their message from one speech to the next, but rarely contradict it so glaringly in the same speech.
When embarrassed by comments made by the pastor of his church, he delivered an exceptional speech about race in America.
Speaking with the speech of men.

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