bespeak

Whatever the validity of that charge, it doesn’t bespeak an administration indifferent to the fate of American political ideas abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

For some time, we’ve existed in a cynical zone in which any public tears bespeak performance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

Personally I am devoted to Jake, his puppyish enthusiasm, his liveliness and fleetness of non-toxic banter which all bespeak a profound purity of soul.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2019

Robyn’s radical career moves bespeak that security; as a Canadian, I’ve seen how access to public health care alone widens artists’ range of choices.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2018

I requested Octav. to bespeak an Apparatus from a Glazier but he would not & defied me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a 1-year-old in the U.S. was about 56 years; that bespeaks a morbid population of infants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

“It creates debris all around. Most importantly, in a psychological sense, it bespeaks the fact that we can’t get basic services done, and that’s never a good message.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021

But there is also an underrecognized Nicholsonian edge, a darkness, to many of his roles, which perhaps bespeaks the relish with which he offered his impression.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Right glad to see the envoys for his dear sister's sake Was the young knight Giselher, and friendly them bespake.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Then bespake good Robin, In place where as he stood, "To-morrow, I must to Kirkesley Craftily to be let blood!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Then bespake him Little John, All unto Robin Hood, "Master, if ye would dine betime, It would do you much good!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Then bespake Cornwall King againe, These were the words said he.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then bespake him kyng Estmere, And answered him hartilye: "I knowe not that ladye in any lande,15 That is able to marry with mee."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Falling for a bespoke arrangement of code remains a novel concept for most people, but it’s also an accessible alternative to isolation.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

Christian Schneider, a documentarian with a line of bespoke leather goods for dogs, had flown in for the show from Asheville, N.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But they retained the power to budget millions of dollars for equipment or bespoke research and development.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Alder Hey doctors, external saw one young patient in 2023, nine in 2024, and then "a rapid escalation" in 2025, which led them to open the bespoke clinic in May.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

I felt his sleep as if it were my own: the emphatic bond was there, and once more I bespoke him, sleepily, by his name—“Therem!”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

On one occasion they were refused admission on the ground that two grand English seigneurs had bespoken all the accommodation.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

Her son Ortlieb, only five years old, is presented by Etzel to his uncles and their favor is bespoken when the prince shall be sent to Burgundy for his education.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

I saw their eyes bespeaking confusion at this raillery, sorrow to hear our liberator mocked thus, and anxiety at what His Lordship’s uncertainty might mean.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson