How to Use to speak of in a Sentence

to speak of

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• The odd firetruck gets through the barricade, but otherwise there’s no thru traffic to speak of.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 July 2026
• Music was generally a solitary pursuit for her, since there was no scene to speak of in her town.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2026
• Amenities and experiences Not many to speak of aside from restaurants.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
• In one montage played for laughs, an emperor is squashed by a panda and a king is beheaded, although there is no blood or guts to speak of.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 2026
• There's no cell signal and no real Wi-Fi to speak of—though guests can request a work-around if truly desperate.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2026
• And because there's no exhaust to speak of, the tractor doesn't expose animals or workers to combustion fumes.
  — New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
• With few neighbors to speak of, save for a few sheep or cows in nearby fields, there’ll be no arguing over bedrooms—the views from each and every one are bucolic.
  — Katie Silcox, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
• The only excess to speak of was love, gratitude, and the overwhelming desire for a different outcome.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 20 July 2026
• This straight-sitcom setup, with little serialization to speak of, seems to be where the show’s natural instincts lie.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
• Within Egypt, then, to speak of political prisoners is to enter a linguistic vacuum, mark oneself as suspect.
  — Abdelrahman Elgendy, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
• But Ben, Anton and I, not knowing what couldn’t be done, decided that three guys in their mid-twenties with no engineering background to speak of would be the ones to get this thing off the ground.
  — Ronnen Harary, Fortune, 31 July 2026
• To Talk With God By Patti Smith To speak of John Coltrane is to speak of the admission and ascent of the creative soul.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
• Everyone knew the story, though Andrew’s relatives were more reluctant to speak of it, to even mention the cult’s name — Synanon — craning their necks to see if any members of her family were close enough to overhear their speculations.
  — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
• Perhaps this game, whatever the result, will come and go relatively peacefully, with no incidents to speak of and no new Argentinian ‘villains’ in the collective English consciousness.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026
• Back then, Below Deck hadn’t yet launched in the Mediterranean, the Housewives hadn’t yet conquered Potomac, and there were no Traitors, Summer House, or Mormon Wives to speak of.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026