How to Use speaking part/role in a Sentence

speaking part/role

noun
  • Her first role, her first speaking role ever, which is a lot to take on.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Has found some acting work as an extra, and even landed a small speaking part.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 July 2024
  • That all really helped me as someone who had never done a speaking role before.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
  • At least half of the shows in the study had at least one Orthodox character in a speaking role.
    — William Earl, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Rubio will have a speaking role, a person familiar with his plans told Axios.
    — Juliegrace Brufke, Axios, 9 July 2024
  • Boban Marjanović, who the Mavericks traded the past year, has a speaking role.
    — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Her first speaking role came courtesy of the NBC drama, which is based and filmed in the town for which it’s named.
    — Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Every sitting president since Bill Clinton has had a speaking part.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2021
  • Although somewhat rare, this isn't the first time a member of the SNL crew has had a brief on-camera speaking role.
    — Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Instead, the Shaftesbury producers had decided to give me a speaking part, to play alongside de Lesseps.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • That's largely because Mario ends up with a relatively minor speaking role in his own movie, pushed aside for other more take-charge characters.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Even without a speaking part for most of the series, Norma still manages to steal a number of scenes through her mumblings and frustrated mannerisms.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Despite this being her first speaking role on camera, co-star Mark Duplass praised her professionalism.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, Daniel was 23 years old and had been offered a small speaking role in the series when Spacey allegedly groped him without his consent.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
  • Though Eminem's appearance in the upcoming series is only a brief cameo without a speaking role, the rapper has, of course, flexed his acting chops before.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • While Sami’s off-screen lover may be Jewish, the only non-Arab character with a speaking part is a soldier who mans the roadblock’s checkpoint.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Trump has no speaking role on Monday, but he is expected to return to the courthouse in lower Manhattan toward the end of the state's case when court records show he will be called as a witness.
    — John Santucci, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Lee Jung-jae also won best actor in a drama series, making history as the first person to win in the drama category for a non-English speaking role.
    — Alicia Rancilio, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In its eight seasons, the series only included Jessica Henwick, who’s of Chinese descent and was featured in eight episodes, in a speaking role.
    — NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • However, if the moderator is somehow also granted a speaking role, then the panel risks spiraling out of control—after all, who will moderate the moderator?
    — Adrian Dearnell, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program and China's first astronaut handled the speaking part.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Kennedy’s dislike for Carter stemmed from Carter’s refusal to give Kennedy, a party insider, a speaking role at the1976 convention which endorsed Carter, a party outsider, for president.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 Jan. 2025

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