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
• 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
• 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
• 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