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adjective

voluble

speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently

In a sentence

Six example sentences with voluble, each labelled with its topic.

  • The voluble taxi driver narrates the whole city for ninety minutes, and the passenger barely manages four lines.

    Movies

  • Normally voluble, the candidate filled every minute of the debate while her opponent struggled to finish a single thought.

    Politics

  • Our guide was voluble from the first mile, keeping up a steady commentary on every hill, ruin and roadside shrine.

    Travel

  • The voluble coach talks through every possession from the sideline, and his players say they hear him in their sleep.

    Basketball

  • The voluble salesman filled the meeting with stories, and the buyer had to interrupt to ask the price.

    Business

  • The novel's voluble narrator digresses for pages on the subject of cheese before returning to the plot.

    Literature

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