How to Use talk the talk in a Sentence
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Don’t talk the talk, walk the walk.
—Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
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Show them how Longhorns talk the talk and walk the walk in this gear.
—Colin Daniels, Chron, 8 Dec. 2020
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And Lundstrom doesn’t just talk the talk.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
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But most fossil-fuel profiteers have learned to talk the talk.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
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Learn the lingo below to talk the talk with contractors and design pros alike.
—Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 28 July 2022
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But learning to talk the talk as a Cabinet secretary is still a work in progress.
—BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
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The administration can’t just talk the talk.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 1 Feb. 2026
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Those who want to be in Republican politics are finding a way to talk the talk.
—Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 12 July 2021
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Naturally, the world’s undisputed fastest man in history can talk the talk.
—Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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Much of recruiting is being able to talk the talk well enough to get players to believe in your program, but those words have to become action at some point.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2022
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Employees who prioritize mental health can sniff out companies who simply talk the talk but don’t make any organizational change to support the initiatives.
—Jane Hanson, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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The ability to talk the talk while reinforcing an oppressive status quo is a tricky pattern for a dramatist to capture, and Townsend opts for broad schematic laughs over subtler comic shadings.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021
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The two Throttle House dudes will be able to talk the talk and walk the walk for deep car nerddom, while the young TikToker can embody the curiosity of the non-car audience and inject scenes with his signature joyfulness.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 5 Feb. 2026
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