How to Use all talk in a Sentence

all talk

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  • The judges all talk to him about stage presence and confidence.
    — EW.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Through this lens, the EU is all talk and no action, while a sovereign UK is not.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Kiffin isn’t just all talk as a head coach anymore, though.
    — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2021
  • That shortfall is seen as a symbol of Western bad faith: all talk, no walk.
    — David Miliband, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Then, other than a brief bout of torture in the second episode, the series is almost all talk.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
  • Most marquee free agents agree to deals within the first hours — or at least days — of the new league year, but Irving said all talk about his plans is premature.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Most marquee free agents agree to deals within the first hours — or at least days — of the new league year, but Irving said all talk about his plans is premature.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • May your pants be stretchy, may your glasses stay full, and may your family avoid all talk of politics.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Lawmakers from both parties agree, but for years Congress has been all talk and no action.
    — William P. Barr, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Trump’s efforts to foment a coup in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Pompeo has since largely sidestepped any or all talk of the Capitol riot.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The anti-China sentiment was all talk and no action, experts say.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2021
  • After the family took note of Jackie studying, all talk about Jeopardy!
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2021
  • Behind the ban is a government eager to keep all talk about China positive.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Behind the ban is a government eager to keep all talk about China positive.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Major players have already staked their claim on prime real estate in the awards conversation — but who has the potential to go the distance, and who is all talk?
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Perhaps the week's top fantasy performance by a quarterback will erase all talk of a Super Bowl hangover.
    — Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Strangely, many companies claiming hybrid multi-cloud are all talk and no action.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Your doctors all talk to each other and work behind the scenes as a team to efficiently and effectively identify and address what’s going on with your body.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Cuomo decries leaders who are all talk and no action, yet his book is dedicated to the proposition that, in government, talk is action.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The whole thing plays like a post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick directed by Terrence Malick: all talk bordering on pretentious poetry and close-ups of body parts.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the rallying cry to bring workers back into the office is really (mostly) all talk: Most financial services firms are granting some leeway with remote work.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In such a situation, all talk of Canada’s sacred sovereignty in the United States would immediately be replaced by the language of realpolitik.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 21 Feb. 2022
  • In September, the Fed capitulated to market sentiment and formally abandoned all talk of the tapering scheme.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes, 10 May 2021

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