soft-spoken
Example Sentences
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De la Fuente, soft-spoken and professorial, is also scrupulously polite, an example many of his players follow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
He described his son as kind, soft-spoken and deeply devoted to his family.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The soft-spoken Brunson was a Jersey kid born into it: His journeyman father, Rick, briefly played for the team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a soft-spoken central banker who chooses his words carefully, is perhaps an unlikely candidate to become one of the few figures who have stood up to President Donald Trump.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
Right away I drove to Portsmouth and met my mother’s childhood friend, a slim, brown-haired, soft-spoken woman of Mommy’s age whose eyes, it turned out, were working just fine.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
