blue streak

Example Sentences

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The toddler can talk a blue streak and likes an audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

That means swearing a blue streak, the way he does, or trying to out-do someone or impress them.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2022

We know and love her as Old Christine; forgive us for being shocked to see her with a sexy blue streak in her hair.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2021

What makes it worse is that right up until Christmas Eve restaurants have been burning a blue streak since Labor Day.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2019

I had no idea how old it was, I never did, with babies—for all I knew it could talk a blue streak and had twenty teeth behind its pursed, pink lips.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath