How to Use all talk in a Sentence

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• The judges all talk to him about stage presence and confidence.
  — EW.com, 5 Apr. 2021
• Through this lens, the EU is all talk and no action, while a sovereign UK is not.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2021
• Kiffin isn’t just all talk as a head coach anymore, though.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2021
• That shortfall is seen as a symbol of Western bad faith: all talk, no walk.
  — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Then, other than a brief bout of torture in the second episode, the series is almost all talk.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
• Hopefully that ends all talk about what 21 thinks about rap’s civil war.
  — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 13 May 2024
• Most marquee free agents agree to deals within the first hours — or at least days — of the new league year, but Irving said all talk about his plans is premature.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Most marquee free agents agree to deals within the first hours — or at least days — of the new league year, but Irving said all talk about his plans is premature.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• May your pants be stretchy, may your glasses stay full, and may your family avoid all talk of politics.
  — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 11 Sep. 2022
• Lawmakers from both parties agree, but for years Congress has been all talk and no action.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
• Trump’s efforts to foment a coup in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Pompeo has since largely sidestepped any or all talk of the Capitol riot.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• The plot, which includes the crash landing of an airplane and an armed intruder out to settle a family score, is nearly all talk.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• The anti-China sentiment was all talk and no action, experts say.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2021
• After the family took note of Jackie studying, all talk about Jeopardy!
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2021
• Behind the ban is a government eager to keep all talk about China positive.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Behind the ban is a government eager to keep all talk about China positive.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• Major players have already staked their claim on prime real estate in the awards conversation — but who has the potential to go the distance, and who is all talk?
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps the week's top fantasy performance by a quarterback will erase all talk of a Super Bowl hangover.
  — Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
• Strangely, many companies claiming hybrid multi-cloud are all talk and no action.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Your doctors all talk to each other and work behind the scenes as a team to efficiently and effectively identify and address what’s going on with your body.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2022
• Cuomo decries leaders who are all talk and no action, yet his book is dedicated to the proposition that, in government, talk is action.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2021
• The whole thing plays like a post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick directed by Terrence Malick: all talk bordering on pretentious poetry and close-ups of body parts.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
• Yet the rallying cry to bring workers back into the office is really (mostly) all talk: Most financial services firms are granting some leeway with remote work.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
• In such a situation, all talk of Canada’s sacred sovereignty in the United States would immediately be replaced by the language of realpolitik.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 Feb. 2022
• In September, the Fed capitulated to market sentiment and formally abandoned all talk of the tapering scheme.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 10 May 2021

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024