How to Use lisp in a Sentence

lisp

noun

• He spoke with a lisp.
• All of them spoke with a slight lisp.
  — James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
• Couldn’t the lisp coach have worked on that instead?
  — Lisa Depaulo, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
• While wearing their units, some clients may speak with a lisp.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 5 Aug. 2024
• And once again, John Kennedy did not have a lisp.
  — Lisa Depaulo, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
• And her voice ended up even having a little bit of a lisp at times.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
• As a first-grader, Katy, both in the book and in real life, spoke with a lateral lisp.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Julianne has an interesting speech affection in this film — her voice sounds very young and there’s a bit of a lisp.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• Nasrallah is known for his long, bombastic speeches and a pronounced lisp.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• Her lisp was also due to the overbite, the reality TV star said.
  — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• Once again, Paul Anthony Kelly plays John with a lisp.
  — Lisa Depaulo, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
• Ramos, who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde last month, was said to have been bullied over a lisp and stutter.
  — Tim Meko, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• This is because Scooby’s rhotic replacement goes deeper than something like a lisp.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2014
• Other parts of the email claimed that DeVoe was uneducated and has a very bad lisp.
  — Tandra Smith | [email protected], al, 30 Dec. 2020
• Many have interpreted his response as a mockery of Brimble’s way of speaking, which sounded like a lisp to many.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 23 Feb. 2021
• Ramos was bullied for having a stutter and a strong lisp, friends and family told the Washington Post.
  — Scott Travis, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
• In the episode, Cindy was repeatedly teased over her lisp by the school bully Buddy Hinson.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• The actress said her lisp was real, and the show's writers incorporated it into her character.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• One example is their voices, as Gracie has a noticeable lisp that fluctuates throughout the film.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• Standing in front of the small crowd, Greiner would have been in her late 20s, with hooded eyes, blonde hair, and a faint British accent masked by a lisp.
  — Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
• In one especially sour moment, Lewis even mocked Duncan’s apparent lisp.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2019
• Eventually, under duress, the composer reduced the affliction to a lisp.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 27 May 2021
• Mullally, who delivers her lines with something halfway between a lisp and facial paralysis, seems to be having just as much fun as Lane.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• Hezbollah played on the popularity of Nasrallah, a skilled orator who spoke with a lisp and would crack the occasional joke and use slang.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
• As the aged mom, Megan Mulally does her whole performance with a kind of an elderly lisp thing, albeit with moments of belting breaking through that.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• The show begins with young Mike (Zaiden James) growing up in a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, where he gets picked on by other kids for his lisp and weight.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2022
• The villain was literally Samuel Jackson playing Russell Simmons, right down to the lisp.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 22 Sep. 2017
• Only the most hardcore Stranger Things fans among us might remember the scene in the very first episode where Dustin defends himself against school bullies making fun of his toothless lisp.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Jan. 2018
• While Gracie speaks with a lisp, Joe talks with a stutter — both indicators of stunted childhoods, or pieces of performative victimhood?
  — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• Yes, Biggie had a lisp and slurred — speech impediments that should have ensured that he’d be laughed out of early freestyle competitions, let alone be a viable candidate for a record contract.
  — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017