How to Use so to speak in a Sentence

so to speak

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• All of the things, so to speak!
  — Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• Read the tea leaves, so to speak.
  — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
• This is our first rodeo, so to speak.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
• Change could be in store, so to speak.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2025
• This would be their big shot, so to speak.
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
• A lot of things are up in the air, so to speak.
  — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
• Did that day take a while to rinse off, so to speak?
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
• Softened her edges, so to speak.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
• The mahogany doors are gone (so to speak).
  — Tarun Galagali, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• But both wells, so to speak, are running dry.
  — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• And what remained was a work of art, so to speak.
  — Amy Huschka, Freep.com, 3 Feb. 2026
• That’s where the drill meets the coalface, so to speak.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
• That's where the malecón is, the boardwalk, so to speak.
  — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
• But that score seemed to open the floodgates, so to speak.
  — Kansas City Star, 23 Nov. 2025
• For theme parks, after all, can jump the shark, so to speak.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
• That's when homes are supposed to fly off the shelves, so to speak.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• But when the poop keeps hanging around, things turn city, so to speak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
• This is bad to the bone, so to speak, causing very bad pain and swelling.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
• There was every kind of a way to write a rap song, so to speak on this.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• Each mask in this six-pack is a treat for skin that's just been through it, so to speak.
  — Annie Blackman, Allure, 10 Apr. 2025
• Keep in mind your brain doesn’t have to such a heady subject alone, so to speak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• So, this is now a trilogy of films, so to speak?
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
• Is the heat press worth the price of admission, so to speak?
  — Joe Salas october 29, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
• This is my instrument, so to speak.
  — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026
• Jack is our godfather, so to speak.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
• Where the movie fumbles is taking its foot off the gas, so to speak.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
• Below is a list of the film’s menu, so to speak, ranked from the least to most horny.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• And with all these stories, the punchline, so to speak, is the song.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 4 June 2025
• Freeze has said before that who called plays could depend on who had the hot hand, so to speak.
  — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• My father was a rolling stone, so to speak, and military as well.
  — Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025