LISP in a Sentence

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For LISP, below is one of 14 sentences:
There was a light of something extraordinary in them, even while her tongue was lisping the emptiest of inanities.

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 Meanings and Examples of LISP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lisp
 v.  pronounce the letter s imperfectly; give s and z the sound of th; speak hesitatingly with low voice, as if afraid
Classic Sentence:
1  What I loathed particularly was his lisp.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
2  You lisp and one tooth in your mouth makes you whistle.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
3  They had always done this from the time they could lisp.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
4  She spoke in a low, eager voice, with a curious lisp in her utterance.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
5  A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb," etc.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  His tongue must have been a little too long or something of that sort, for he continually lisped, and seemed to be very proud of it, imagining that it greatly added to his dignity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
7  There was a light of something extraordinary in them, even while her tongue was lisping the emptiest of inanities.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  "I was surprised to hear of your desire to join us," he began, lisping and drawling, which was something new.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
9  "You are certainly out of your mind," he observed, without even raising his head, lisping as deliberately as ever and threading his needle.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VIII
10  Prince Andrew rose hastily, listened to the business they had come about, gave them some further instructions, and was about to dismiss them when he heard a familiar, lisping, voice behind the shed.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIV
11  Why this," began Pierre, not sitting down but pacing the room, sometimes stopping short, gesticulating, and lisping: "the position in Petersburg is this: the Emperor does not look into anything.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XIV
12  The man, like Mrs. Stapleton herself, spoke good English, but with a curious lisping accent.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
13  On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did not immediately understand.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN
Example Sentence:
1  Both of them lisp out their words on this puzzle.