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How to use bespeak in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb, noun

Bespeak means to speak about; tell of; relate; discuss. Example: “I bespeak your patience in advance.”

Examples of bespeak by meaning

verbTo stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

  • to bespeak a calm hearing
  • I bespeak your patience in advance.

verbTo speak to; address.

  • Spurring his horse, he galloped down to the shore and bespoke them.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23

verbTo betoken; show; indicate; depict; foretell; suggest; allude to.

  • This act bespeaks his kindness.
  • Are they telling your story vividly, strikingly, in designs that command attention, in colors that bespeak distinction?1921, Printers' Ink, volume 114, page 50

More sentences with bespeak

  • It bespeaks the possibilities of ethnic identification and acculturation which are not automatically tied with racial appearance.2017 March 2, Lena Dominelli, Walter Lorenz, Beyond Racial Divides: Ethnicities in Social Work Practice, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry bananahood
  • This need to shelter the ultra rich bespeaks unacceptably high real levels of insecurity which beset the middle and working classes.2014, Andreas Daniel Fogg, Deferred Pay, Mergers and Acquisitions and Sectoral Deflation, Frame Deconstructions, →ISBN. From the entry ultra rich
  • On “Train” it displays heavy-metal flair, and the singer Brad Arnold achieves a blueslike informality that bespeaks his Mississippi roots.2008 May 26, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry blueslike
  • Buying shoes without shoe boxes bespeaks cheapness of Scroogesque proportions.2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry Scroogesque
  • They bespeak a readiness to be cowed in return for a stall in the Establishment barn; at whatever cost in originality.1973, Nelson Algren, “Hand in Hand Through the Greenery”, in The Last Carousel,, New York: Seven Stories Press, page 76. From the entry coltishness
  • Their cultures however bespeak not only their past resemblances but also the identicalism of their present and future aspirations.1952, The China Monthly Review, volume 123, page 165. From the entry identicalism
  • But Carême's creations, rather than proving the inherent artiness of food, seem rather to bespeak a jokish spectacularism in an orgy of conspicuous waste.2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture. From the entry jokish
  • In this humbling of the complex into the simplistic, satire finally reduces the mind, soul or spirit to that flesh which always bespeaks inferiority on the Chain of Being.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.148. From the entry satire

Meaning of bespeak

  1. verb To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
  2. verb To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order, commission, reserve or arrange for something to be made in advance.
  3. verb To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.

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Questions about bespeak in a sentence

How do you use bespeak in a sentence?
Bespeak is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I bespeak your patience in advance.”
What is a short sentence with bespeak?
“This act bespeaks his kindness.”
What does bespeak mean?
Bespeak means to speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.

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