SPEAKER in a Sentence

Learn SPEAKER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
154 example sentences for SPEAKER, such as:
1. Our first speaker tonight is Mr.
2. The conference rose to applaud the speaker.
3. The speaker stood in full view of the crowd.
4. Here the speaker paused an instant for breath.
5. The audience rose bodily to cheer the speaker.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SPEAKER
speaker
 n.  electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
 n.  someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  THE QUERULOUS DRONE ceased as I entered Frome's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  John Wilkes casually but swiftly came back to his place beside the speaker, as if to impress on all present that this man was his guest and that, moreover, there were ladies present.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The tone was neither aggressive nor conciliatory: it revealed nothing of the speaker's errand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  The speaker was a poorly-dressed young woman with a bundle under her arm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  She tried to reply, to assure the speaker that she had not forgotten; but her voice failed in the effort, and she felt herself sinking under a great wave of physical weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  "Oh," said Jurgis, wonderingly, and stated at the speaker in awe.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  The speaker sank into one of the big armchairs, and Admiral Dewey crouched beneath it; he did not snarl again, but he never took his eyes off Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  Through it all Jurgis sat still, motionless and rigid, his eyes fixed upon the speaker; he was trembling, smitten with wonder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
9  And the speaker's voice broke suddenly, with the stress of his feelings; he stood with his arms stretched out above him, and the power of his vision seemed to lift him from the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
10  But suddenly he stood up again, and Jurgis heard the chairman of the meeting saying that the speaker would now answer any questions which the audience might care to put to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
11  The speaker was gone; but there was a stage door that stood open, with people passing in and out, and no one on guard.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
12  The other started away, and the speaker looked at Jurgis again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
13  Here the speaker paused an instant for breath.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
15  Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enumerated their deeds of success and victory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  You cannot assume that a speaker of English is ipso facto qualified to teach English.
2  The speaker tried hard to impress the audience but left them cold.
3  The audience rose bodily to cheer the speaker.
4  The speaker got a very hostile reception from the audience.
5  It is part of the chairman's duty to keep each speaker to the point to avoid wasting time.
6  Our first speaker tonight is Mr.
7  The speaker discoursed knowledgeably on a variety of subjects.
8  The speaker stood in full view of the crowd.
9  The speaker lit into the government for its tax bill.
10  We couldn't hear the speaker at the back of the hall because her voice doesn't carry very well.
11  She was an excellent speaker, but I found her choice of topic strange.
12  He inclined towards the speaker to hear more clearly.
13  The conference rose to applaud the speaker.
14  Sir David Bellamy was a guest speaker at the conference.
15  The speaker gesticulated by raising his arms, pounding the desk, and stamping his foot.