How to Use fast-talk in a Sentence

fast-talk

verb
  • The fast-talking spikes take 2.6 minutes and the more languorous ones are 14 minutes long.
    Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 20 Oct. 2023
  • So perhaps there's hope that fans will see more of their favorite fast-talking lawyers.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 2 June 2024
  • Lately, it’s been a fast-talking man extolling the virtues of an electric scrubber.
    Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Magee — a gregarious, fast-talking bear of a guy with sandy brown hair and a mustache — is wearing a black-and-gray chef’s coat.
    Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The fast-talking track arrived alongside a video directed by Aidan Cullen.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • It’s been a remarkable ascent for the fast-talking Jewish gay kid from St. Louis who turned out to have a lot more charisma than his former boss could see.
    Maer Roshan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • January’s head-spinning series of events seemed to herald the arrival of a new filmmaking force in the form of two fast-talking film bros from the literal other end of the earth.
    Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • Or lovers-to-be, for the bulk of its cheerfully fleet 82-minute runtime — not that Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia’s fast-talking script leaves us in any doubt as to their destiny from their first sweetly awkward meet-cute.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In an interview, Tong said consumers need to be wary of aggressive, fast-talking sales pitches, especially those that are door-to-door.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 July 2024
  • Over the course of his career, the famously fast-talking and outraged comedian became a mainstay in clubs from Midtown to Vegas.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 June 2023
  • There is one returning character who is on the defendants’ side: their fast-talking defense lawyer Jackie Chiles, played by Phil Morris.
    Frederic J. Frommer, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • The rapper dropped the song alongside a music video directed by Patience Harding that sees Cardi performing the fast-talking track in a series of slick ensembles.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But no one who picked up the phone wanted to listen to this fast-talking teenager selling a mission-critical security service.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • His unorthodox ways and fast-talking nature initially grate on local lawmen Rosewood (Reinhold, 66) and Taggart (Ashton, 75), but the men ultimately bond — and bring down the bad guys.
    Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Well, yes, the diminutive, fast-talking actress is hilariously paired with the WWE star who’s somehow transformed himself into America’s most lovable big lug.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • There’s fast-talking repartee, witty dialogue and fantastic chemistry between his leads Zosia Mamet and Aristotle Athar.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • An introductory roar of stadium crowd noise and fast-talking match commentary is soon shrunk to the inner monologue of Vinny (Ward), a fleet-footed young man crashing a children’s soccer match in an East London park.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Accompanied by a pair of musicians, Kesha performed the fast-talking track, which appears on her new album Gag Order, in a rectangular room with flickering lights, giving it a punk flair.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
  • For as much as Anderson’s films call for his actors to flatten their delivery, his first foray into stop-motion animation picked up the pace considerably, and Clooney zips right along with his character’s fast-talking schemes.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
  • Every week, this fast-talking duo extol their latest and greatest discoveries from tips on modern motherhood to the perfect airplane snack to Instagram-worthy earrings.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 16 May 2023
  • There’s the wealth of indelible personalities surrounding our central duo — including Amy Sedaris’ delightfully quirky Peli Motto, back to run more fast-talking scams.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Their real talent seems to lie in fast-talking media platforms into giving them an undeserved platform to unfairly target iconic pillars of U.S. enterprise.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 5 June 2023

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