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

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

Following the paradigm established by writers like Ottessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey, these latest heroines bespeak a literary era that’s swung past genial pessimism into repulsion.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 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

Those who say they sleep well are a little bashful, as if their easy rest bespeaks a too-cosseted mind, a too-simple life.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

“It’s nice not to feel like the world has passed you by,” says Kiedis, whose ’70s-style mustache bespeaks a certain confidence in his status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

“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

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

Then bespake him Sir Bredbeddle, These were the words said he: 255 "I coniure thee, thou Burlow-beane, Thou tell me how this steed was riddin in his country."

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

Then bespake him Sir Marramile, And these were the words said hee: "Riding of this steed, brother Bredbeddle, 240 The mastery belongs to me."

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

Then bespake Little John, To Much he 'gan say: "I dare lay my life to wed These monks have brought our pay!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

No, his looks bespake no coldness; they dwelt upon Jacqueline's lovely but inscrutable face, with honest fervor and boundless regard.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

And then bespake him King Arthur, "Alas! thou gentle knight, how may this be, That I might see him in the same licknesse, That he stood unto thee?"

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

Meanwhile the Grapevine, a bespoke staffing agency that caters to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices, has seen demand for house managers nearly double since last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

"The methods for defining stickiness that have been developed are always bespoke: They work for one material, at one size scale, in one condition. It's good for studying, but you can't do much with it."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

The cards, all filed into bespoke Pokémon binders while still sealed, were stored in the attic after his son lost interest in the Japanese gaming and film franchise.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

All bespoke bounty, and peace, a world never ending.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

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

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

But the old lady had already, before the baptism, bespoken a young man of heavenly beauty from Barby.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

For the crape hat–that was the accident–must indeed come, because it was bespoken.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

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