How to Use talk the talk in a Sentence

talk the talk

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  • Show them how Longhorns talk the talk and walk the walk in this gear.
    — Colin Daniels, Chron, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The 49ers will talk the talk about next-man-up, yadda-yadda.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Learn the lingo below to talk the talk with contractors and design pros alike.
    — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 28 July 2022
  • But learning to talk the talk as a Cabinet secretary is still a work in progress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But most fossil-fuel profiteers have learned to talk the talk.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Those who want to be in Republican politics are finding a way to talk the talk.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 12 July 2021
  • Much of recruiting is being able to talk the talk well enough to get players to believe in your program, but those words have to become action at some point.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The ability to talk the talk while reinforcing an oppressive status quo is a tricky pattern for a dramatist to capture, and Townsend opts for broad schematic laughs over subtler comic shadings.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021

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