How to Use give voice to in a Sentence

give voice to

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  • Art can give voice to moments in our lives when words fail.
    New York Times, 17 Apr. 2021
  • That set her on a mission to give voice to those whose own voices were buried both in the past and the present.
    Steve Hochman, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Casting our ballots is a way to give voice to the voiceless.
    Ben Leonard, baltimoresun.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The effect, as Chacon has described it, is meant to give voice to the voiceless.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
  • Reichardt’s characters never give voice to the themes of the film.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, Forest Whitaker has been tapped to give voice to the apostle Peter.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But his drive to give voice to others has deep, personal roots.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But also give voice to the unfairness of letting hearsay stand as fact.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • More than 33 years since his death at age 63, Baldwin continues to give voice to our times.
    USA Today, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Whitman’s words give voice to our cities and the artists who invigorate them.
    Elizabeth Alexander, Time, 11 June 2021
  • There is a place, an important one, for the novels that give voice to the struggles and drudgeries of parenting.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Something similar might be said of Banks, who, like Algren, wrote in part to give voice to the marginalized.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Poetry can give voice to life’s profound events: love or grief.
    courant.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • And people are using that old tweet, from Blockbuster, to give voice to some of their frustrations with the streamer.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 3 May 2022
  • On the stand, Laurence is forced to speak against her will, but somehow the words give voice to Rama’s internal monologue.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Now others are trying to give voice to those working behind the scenes in that building who cannot speak on their own behalf.
    Author: Jada Yuan, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • In order to give voice to all sides of an issue Ms. Corthron has to engage in a truly vast amount of explanation.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Being able to hear Blue Ivy give voice to this masterful story is so awesome.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In returning to this story, Beauvoir seems to have wanted to find a way to give voice to her most secret desires.
    Lara Feigel, The New Republic, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The songs give voice to women whose individual stories seemed doomed to fade away.
    Jenna Schnuer For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • Encourage your kids to give voice to their feelings, and put that into practice yourself.
    Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Harris said she was simply wanted to give voice to a client — and a community —that too often — and too quickly — is judged.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • Overturf uses imagery and text to give voice to frustrations and despair.
    oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Levant adds that, when men give voice to their feelings, their relationships tend to improve.
    USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • For decades, Eula Hall cared for her people in Appalachian Kentucky, helping heal the sick and give voice to the vulnerable.
    Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2021
  • Characters don’t give voice to moving speeches when a single sentence will do.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This is why Burst wants to give voice to artists, storytellers, videographers, and a platform to people who have a story to share and want to work with the team at Burst to package it and distribute it.
    Carolina Milanesi, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The shirt is an appropriation of the Black Lives Matter movement's chant that is intended to give voice to women who had been killed by police.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • For example, the World could give voice to all of the bullies and trolls who the audience hears and sees on video screens, and Self-Esteem could speak the human characters’ inner thoughts about themselves.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The vigil in Lowell was planned to honor the Asian victims of the shootings in Atlanta last month, and to give voice to the outrage that their murders were not initially regarded as hate crimes.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2021

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