- past participle of speak.
spoken
Example Sentences
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Durrell’s poetic meditations on love and creativity seem to have spoken to Monroe’s own struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Hahn Niman said she has spoken with Kennedy about the park, and he supports agriculture in the seashore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
District Judge Natasha Fitzsimmons enquired as to the outcome of those reports to police and the detective replied: "He was spoken to by officers and obviously took no consideration of what they told him."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Hanlin Tang, the CTO of neural networks at Databricks, said he has spoken with clients not in technology who have dropped the term “hill-climbing” in calls—mainly AI-forward ones in consulting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
With a twinge of embarrassment Penelope realized that she must have spoken the name aloud.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
