How to Use so to speak in a Sentence

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• Below is a list of the film’s menu, so to speak, ranked from the least to most horny.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2024
• The buzz, so to speak, is meant to be even louder this time.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• That's when homes are supposed to fly off the shelves, so to speak.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• The status of the preservation of that bridge is, so to speak, up in the air.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• No flair when moving the sets around on-stage, so to speak.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
• Mark is still, so to speak, drinking the Kool-Aid—his own.
  — Benjamin Hale, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• And so, in the case of S&P, the numbers may have gone, but the letters, so to speak, will remain.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Aug. 2023
• But by the time a real Christmas tree has reached your home, it’s been around the block so to speak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• But this taste can lead him, so to speak, to miss the ice cubes in the tumbler while seeking the iceberg in the ocean.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Heart Berries will continue to grow, so to speak, for as long as the earth is around.
  — Morgan Talty, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• The pill, so to speak, is a type of bacteria called Wolbachia.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
• The free radicals become, so to speak, the hammer used to smash the glass on a fire alarm.
  — Jenna Schnuer, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• Grier and McDaniel did a nice job of re-stocking the shelves, so to speak.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2024
• And here’s the thing, the military is also on the front lines, so to speak, of having to deal with the fallout.
  — Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2024
• Freeze has said before that who called plays could depend on who had the hot hand, so to speak.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• Some worried Lawson was sailing too close to the sun, so to speak.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
• But even unguided play here is meant to count as doing the work, so to speak.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• The book is written from the perspective of a phantom so to speak, from the idea of a scary Black person.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• But the first crack in the dam, so to speak, was my interview with Guinevere.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2023
• And, as such, the best candidates for alien life may be on watery worlds where life can, so to speak, stay in the shade.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The targets of the song’s vigilante threats seem to be scattershot., so to speak.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 July 2023
• The notion that the longer distance would help free up parking only goes so far, so to speak.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Do the bouts of extreme rain and extreme drought cancel each other out, so to speak?
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024
• Yet, Stern joked, there should be a cap on how much Cooper-as-an-Eagles fan should be able to fly, so to speak.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• But such expectations may be way too big or too hard to achieve, so to speak.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
• Agree to turn the page, so to speak, when an argument is beginning.
  — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
• And her sister Mae had flown the coop, so to speak, which left her with strong feelings of abandonment.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2024
• There is plenty of nudity, of course — and not just live and in the flesh, so to speak, but in the form of a photo on the wall: a horrid crotch shot.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
• And in the paradigmatic blue state of California, more than half a dozen formerly blue counties are now, so to speak, in the red.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 30 Dec. 2024
• The only misstep, so to speak, is the famous scene when the young dancers in Rose’s traveling troupe are replaced mid-dance by their older selves, a marker of the passage of time.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025