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How to use the word speaking in a Sentence?

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It takes a tremendous amount of heart and bravery to open up and speak about your traumas. Recognizing that it is a part of you, and you are not running from them. Something that makes you feel uncomfortable speaking about, but it's needed to cope.

Tristain Shury

added by choozenboy
5 months ago

This was a bill that was one of many targeting the LGBTQ community in Montana. This legislature has systematically attacked that community. We have seen bills targeting our art forms, our books, our history and our health care, and I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills.

Zooey Zephyr

Found on CNN
11 months ago

When I rose up and said there is blood on your hands, I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body.

Montana Republicans

Found on CNN
11 months ago

And I rose up in defense of my community that day, speaking to harms that these bills bring and that I have first-hand experience knowing about. I have friends that have taken their lives because of these bills. when I rose up and said there is blood on your hands, I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body.

Montana Republicans

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I’m in jail for my political views; for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, for many years of struggle against Putin’s dictatorship, for facilitating the adoption of personal international sanctions under the Magnitsky Act against human rights violators. Not only do I not repent of any of this, I am proud of it.

Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images Kara-Murza

Found on CNN
11 months ago

It feels great [ to be out ], you only appreciate freedom once you’ve been incarcerated, let me tell you. It’s a different lifestyle, it’s a different world. I’ve been out now for over three months and I ’m happy to be here alive and speaking to you.

Boris Becker

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Companies, unless they are connected, should not be speaking out, companies are not social entities.

Paul Argenti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That can’t be a footnote; it can’t be an afterthought, i’m speaking specifically, directly to both GOP and Democratic politicians: Be mindful of the words that you use. Because the words you use can have real world impacts on the bodies of Asian American people on the streets.

Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The momentum was just crushed by a pretty well-organized force and movement of people who are seeking to conserve racism, who’ve tried to change the problem from racism to antiracism. And who’ve tried to change the problem from police violence to the people speaking out against police violence.

Mark Lennihan/AP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Without speaking to any individual entity or person, we will investigate and bring enforcement actions if we find violations of the federal securities laws.

Gary Gensler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have been speaking to many grassroots conservative activists around the country who are very enthusiastic for Governor DeSantis to run for president in 2024, the energy is there, grassroots conservatives see the governor as a leader and a fighter with a winning conservative track record who will lead the Republican Party to victory in 2024. Based on those conversations, I am most confident that we will build an unmatched grassroots political army for Governor DeSantis to help carry him to the White House.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Puppets allow us to enter the imagination of a child, you think of a child playing. Their toys can talk. Their cars can move. So you’re speaking their imaginative and creative language when you’re allowing a puppet to come to life.

Piphus Peace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.

Søren Kierkegaard

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

With these fines, FDA is finally speaking a language these manufacturers understand.

Erika Sward

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t want to be viewed as the victim. You know, I’ve survived. And because of Nikki Haley, I’m thriving. I’m here. I’m speaking for her. And I really believe in her campaign.

Cindy Warmbier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Generally speaking, the country feels and is just a lot safer since I’ve ever worked there.

James Willcox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s estimated that nearly 70 % of the population experience sleep starts at some point, medically speaking, hypnic jerks are classified as a type of myoclonus, which is a category of rapid, involuntary muscle movements. A classic example of myoclonus are hiccups.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With an aircraft United States can actually, as a matter of speaking, fly to Moscow and bomb the Kremlin. I do n’t think the Ukrainians will do that, but there’s a risk involved, and that may actually lead to an escalation that we are not really willing to accept.

Peter Wijninga

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't think there's been two years of more effective policymaking of a modern American president, the president talks a lot about a unifying agenda. Focus on the fact that we all need to be respected, connected, protected ; these universal values start speaking to those values again. That gives me confidence not just in a re-election for Joe Biden, but a successful final two years of Joe Biden first term.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He came to my house after the election. … He was saying that the elections were fake … really speaking erratically. I didn’t feel threatened at the time, but I did feel like he was erratic.

Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The temperature threshold for when iguanas begin to go into a dormant state depends greatly on the size of the iguana, generally speaking, the larger the iguana, the more cold it can tolerate for longer periods.

Ron Magill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These things sort of all intersect with each other and just lead to, generally speaking, higher barriers to economic security for Black workers.

Kate Bahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You’ve given me a new beginning. Even if this is the end, because you did kill me off, but it doesn’t matter. Even if this is the end, you changed my life in a million different ways, my neighbors are speaking to me and things like that. I mean it. I was never invited to one party on my hill, and now everyone’s inviting me. I just – you know, it’s to you, Mike White.

Jennifer Coolidge

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are all grateful for the many years we have been able to spend with a truly remarkable human being, a great journalist, and speaking as a kid brother, the greatest older brother any kid brother could ever have.

Marvin Kalb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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