Speaker

//ˈspikɚ//

"Speaker" in a Sentence (23 examples)

To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

Each speaker was allotted five minutes.

Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.

The speaker tried to incite the people to rebellion.

The speaker aroused the anger of the audience.

The speaker swaggered into the lecture hall.

The speaker banged the table with his fist.

The speaker should stand where everyone can see him.

Tom is a fluent speaker of Japanese.

None were listening to the speaker.

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There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.

This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ...

As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.

Each written word when spoken is mutually incomprehensible between a Mandarin speaker in Beijing and a Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong. If you think that’s odd, consider our number system: the symbol “9” is universally recognized but it’s pronounced “nine” in English and “devet” in Slovenian.

She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.

you're on speaker

I'm gonna put you on speaker now

Near-synonyms: orator, presenter, announcer

hired speaker;   motivational speaker

The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.

The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ...

Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".

With a speäker, or stake, he tossed the outlying scraps of fuel on the into the conflagration.

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