bespoke
bi-ˈspōk 
bē-
; bespoken
bi-ˈspō-kən
bē-
; bespeaking
Examples of bespeak in a Sentence
Her newest album bespeaks a great talent for writing songs.
bespoke the rental car weeks in advance of their trip
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Her own story bespeaks an iron-willed mind that won’t quit: Now 75, Breillat soldiered on after a stroke in 2004 that left her partly paralyzed and contributed to the 10-year gap since her last project.
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Nicolas Rapold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
His post-electoral remarks bespoke a magnanimity and forward-looking resolve atypical of politicians.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
The image bespeaks a cultured people resisting barbarism as much as the old photo of the imperturbably English book browsers in a roofless building.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
While that commitment bespeaks admirable care and sensitivity, it’s also clearly designed to offset the apparent optical setback of having a white filmmaker, even a white filmmaker as justly revered as Scorsese, tell an epic tale of Native American displacement and destruction.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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Nicolas Rapold, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
His post-electoral remarks bespoke a magnanimity and forward-looking resolve atypical of politicians.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
The image bespeaks a cultured people resisting barbarism as much as the old photo of the imperturbably English book browsers in a roofless building.
—Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
While that commitment bespeaks admirable care and sensitivity, it’s also clearly designed to offset the apparent optical setback of having a white filmmaker, even a white filmmaker as justly revered as Scorsese, tell an epic tale of Native American displacement and destruction.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
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“Bespeak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bespeak. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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