How To Use Voluble In A Sentence
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My father was halfway through his third pint and was becoming increasingly voluble when I spotted a red car turning into the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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He became animated and voluble; he even smiled.
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Nevertheless he was too much in awe of the older woman to make any voluble protest.
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It's not often that one hears such voluble praise for this government.
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Never having been confronted with this question before, the usually voluble scientist answers evasively, and it temporarily sinks her mission as Earth's representative to other worlds.
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With a sudden change of manner, his visitant conjured him, in voluble and impetuous terms, to comply.
Ferdinando Eboli
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Those voices were more voluble and more naive ten years ago than they are today.
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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Shame made her want to hang on to her outrage, to justify its voluble, satisfying violence.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
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I'm chatty anyway but I probably get even more voluble.
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The meetings were voluble and at times fierce.
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Clarissa was extremely voluble on the subject of good manners.
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But Jose was a gallego, whence instead of the voluble flood of protesting words one expects from a Spaniard on such an occasion, he wrapped himself in a stoical silence.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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I think I upheld the honour of Scotland by making a voluble speech of thanks.
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The opening onslaught is again a bit too chattery, as this large group (there's at least six musicians on each track) seems to work best when they rein in their more voluble tendencies.
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Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people.
Now Please Shush!
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He was gregarious and voluble, a popular member of the literary crowd that frequented the city's cafes and restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Useful phrase to drop into the awkward silence which follows a voluble 'botty burp'.
The Sun
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Rather, he is generous and voluble when asked about his personal life and his working habits, laughing frequently.
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She is voluble but it is a volubility weighted with good thoughts on every subject.
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As the most visible and voluble owner in the National Football League, Jones has more than his share of detractors.
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She is voluble about the support she has received from her family and friends, and the Cincinnati Zoo, whose help in sustaining the project has been crucial.
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Trade union leaders and managements are voluble in condemning each other without owning up responsibility.
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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It will require the opinionated and voluble 48-year-old from Edinburgh's Muirhouse to soil his hands with the media, agents and all manner of those folk who make demands of an institution club's figurehead.
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He is a voluble and glib speaker and said to be very ambitious.
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Here Mrs. Silverstein groaned her horror of gambling, and her husband, aware that his eloquence had betrayed him, collapsed into voluble assurances that he was ahead of the game.
Chapter 2
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Ferguson, clarinetist Brent Besner, and marimbist Nick Tolle gave clean, collected performances of esprit rude/esprit doux I and II, dovetailed together, and here the conversation was even more voluble.
Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics
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It might have come in handy if we ever spotted the Eastern Screech-Owl that disturbed our already suspect outdoor slumber, but the voluble varmint was well-hidden.
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A voluble, burly man with a flush face and a deep voice, he was a force throughout the weekend.
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She was voluble with excitement.
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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It was as if a giant snake were in combat with a large and voluble goose.
Times, Sunday Times
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To some extent this is a public, formal persona that is belied by the intimacy and voluble conversation shared by good friends and family members.
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I cannot tell whether he recognised me, but that night he was voluble, almost loquacious.
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Some of the throws were remindful that his most voluble critics had labeled him McChoke and McDontovan.
Donovan McNabb makes a strong statement in his return to Philadelphia
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making odd hand or finger movements that are not typically dyskinetic, performing inconspicuous repetitive actions (e.g., making a series of clicking sounds before or after speaking, tapping or automatically touching objects while walking about), mutism, psychomotor retardation, or speech that becomes progressively less voluble until it becomes a nonunderstandable mumble (prosectic speech).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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It was as if a giant snake were in combat with a large and voluble goose.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gentleman in the rostrum is a voluble personage, with a rapidly roving eye, of preternatural quickness in picking up "bids.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891
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She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
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Nevertheless he was too much in awe of the older woman to make any voluble protest.
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He doesn't speak about his wife at all, except to say she is still in Prague, but he is appropriately voluble about his daughter.
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The forest ramps over frontiers and plains and swallows voluble Customs men in slow ash.
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His new boss, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Chairman Li Shufu , is the voluble son of former farmers with a classic entrepreneur's rise.
Volvo's Chief, New Boss Are a Study in Contrasts
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Those modern Jews were voluble to disavow all sympathy with the murderous deeds of their progenitors, who had martyred the prophets, and ostentatiously averred that if they had lived in the times of those martyrdoms they would have been no participators therein, yet by such avouchment they proclaimed themselves the offspring of those who had shed innocent blood.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
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Maybe they are the ‘good children’ in a big, voluble family to whom nobody pays much attention because the naughty boys are always centre-stage.
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She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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Marcy, as voluble as Butler was then reserved, recalls an epiphany in the shower, when he realized that to succeed in his chosen field, he had to address the kind of questions that he had cared about as a child—including whether planets orbited other suns.
First Contact
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she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
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Butchers do know, and they're usually voluble about their product and will help you find what you want at the right price.
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I love these guys - they make me look like I'm clever, when really I'm just voluble and profane and tediously honest.
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Most of the people obediently returned to the church, their suddenly loosened tongues clattering in voluble excitement.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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Nervous PR folk and man wielding a hair brush flutter around her nervously as the stunning actress is seated and rapidly surrounded by her voluble fans.
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Beyond that, he was unforgettable: flamboyant and voluble, the type of guy who gives everyone a nickname and who might break into a show tune at any moment.
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He is able; he is voluble; he's, I think, a very decent man, but again the campaign I think has not been there for him.
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Then as now the habitant was a voluble talker, a teller of great stories about his own feats and experiences.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation — and empty advice.
Gänsemännchen. English
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And these wheels he called voluble, in my hearing.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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He and her mother covered the silence and ice with hot and voluble sycophantry.
The Price She Paid.
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My father was halfway through his third pint and was becoming increasingly voluble when I spotted a red car turning into the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well he's a voluble man, and you know, he has his own strong views.
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Mercedes Higgins was voluble as a Greek, and wandered on in reminiscence.
CHAPTER II
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There have been a few representations in English within this time and a considerable number in Italian, our operatic institutions being quick, as a rule, to put it upon the stage whenever they have at command a soprano leggiero with a voice of sufficient range and flexibility to meet the demands of the extraordinary music which Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night to oblige his voluble-throated sister-in-law, Mme. Hofer, who was the original representative of that character.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Placed on Diana's left at table, he gave her much voluble information about her neighbors, mostly ill-natured; he spoke familiarly of "that clever chap Marsham," as of a politician who owed his election for the division entirely to the good offices of Mr. Fred Birch's firm, and described Lady Lucy as "an old dear," though very "frowsty" in her ideas.
The Testing of Diana Mallory
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Many see Parker as the obvious leader, whose voluble style works well on TV.
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I found him to be a totally honest witness, but he is voluble and answers questions quite effusively, not always directly.
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The odd whistle and occasional murmur slipped through from the usually voluble Parisians but otherwise they remained as unemotional as the protagonists on court.
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He was gregarious and voluble, a popular member of the literary crowd that frequented the city's cafes and restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.
Ulysses
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In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim. —
Ulysses
