How to Use fast-talk in a Sentence
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The fast-talking spikes take 2.6 minutes and the more languorous ones are 14 minutes long.
—Lloyd Alter, Treehugger, 20 Oct. 2023
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So perhaps there's hope that fans will see more of their favorite fast-talking lawyers.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 2 June 2024
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Lately, it’s been a fast-talking man extolling the virtues of an electric scrubber.
—Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
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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
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The fast-talking track arrived alongside a video directed by Aidan Cullen.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The 54-year-old sounds every inch the same fast-talking, outspoken journalist who dominated TV screens more than two decades.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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According to fast-talking Harry, no—but that doesn’t stop him from getting chummy with the lovably neurotic Sally.
—Gia Yetikyel, Vogue, 24 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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Set in the 1950s, this fast-talking fashionista hides her new life as a comedian from her family and ex while battling sexism, bad crowds, and big competition.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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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
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Du Feng’s film focuses on Hao, a slick and fast-talking dating coach (one of China’s most sought-after, evidently) based in the sprawling, glittering metropolis of Chongqing.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2025
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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
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There’s fast-talking repartee, witty dialogue and fantastic chemistry between his leads Zosia Mamet and Aristotle Athar.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Hollywood has always had an affinity for schemers and maybe that’s because show business is run by similar types: High on their own supply of overconfidence and fast-talking obfuscation.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
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Refrain from letting a fast-talking sales pitch result in emotional, physical or financial trouble.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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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In this classic, charming romantic comedy, Cary Grant plays a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his fast-talking ex-wife (Rosalind Russell), also a reporter for the newspaper, from remarrying.
—EW.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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Silva plays CeCe, Caroline’s fast-talking, desperately loyal, scene-stealing best friend and authoritarian second-in-command, who keeps the sorority running smoothly while Caroline plots and schemes.
—Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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