spoken for
Example Sentences
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"All these billions of individuals that existed through time are spoken for by this one specimen."
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
The U.S. produces about 13 million barrels of oil a day, but most of that supply is already spoken for.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Queen Camilla has spoken for the first time publicly about fighting off an attacker on a train when she was a teenager, in an interview broadcast Wednesday.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
Worse still, the money is already spoken for.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 22, 2025
I had not heard words spoken for so long that they sounded strange to me, yet they were good to hear, even though it was an enemy who spoke them.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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