How to Use talk at in a Sentence

talk at

verb
  • She’s talked at length with her coach, who has competed along the scenic course.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Even more moon talk at the bottom of today’s newsletter.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Richard, an executive coach, rewrote his talk at least 30 times.
    — Alla Adam, Forbes.com, 1 May 2026
  • Rare real talk at a Dubai conference.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
  • Washington said that he’s kept in touch with Pettis and that the two still talk at least twice per week.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • His 75-minute-long tours feel less like being talked at and more like movable feasts of sights and storytelling.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • Cuba’s formal government seemed to have been blindsided by those talks at first.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the people who heard Liz Igra’s talk at Eskaton weren’t strangers.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Pickens’ agents want to start contract talks at the combine, which starts next week in Indianapolis.
    — Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • After talks at the beginning of this past week stalled like a car made out of sausage, a federal mediator joined the mix.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Defne and Mete talked at length to a group of ex-housemate engineers who were creating a peer-to-peer payment service.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • Suggest an alternative A colleague of ours gives talks at big events and conventions.
    — John Richardson attia Qureshi, CNBC, 22 May 2026
  • The show then cut to the President talking at a Medal of Honor ceremony.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Suddenly, everyone was talking at once, voices and tempers rising.
    — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • That was Katharine Blodgett talking at her retirement dinner in 1963.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • When Song unveiled his breakthrough in a talk at Princeton last December, Noar expected a full proof to soon follow.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
  • Galleries were opening around the area, and there were talks at Kordansky and Karma—which has a big Milton Avery show up.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Deal or no deal, the war will loom large during next week’s talks at the Group of Seven summit in bucolic Évian-les-Bains, France.
    — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • Deal or no deal, the war will loom large during next week's talks at the Group of Seven summit in bucolic Évian-les-Bains, France.
    — ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • As well, Muholi will present an artist talk at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet on October 13.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The talk at Naper Settlement is one of many Martin will be giving for Black History Month.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Rams general manager Les Snead met with reporters on Tuesday and mentioned how teams are frequently engaged in trade talks at this time of year.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The players are talking at the team's practice facility in Voorhees, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 12 May 2026
  • The two sides wrapped up three hours of talks at Incheon International Airport, focused on economic and trade issues.
    — Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • That same year Trump asked White to talk at the Republican National Convention.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 26 May 2026
  • Ultrafinitism is not polite talk at a mathematical society dinner.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The two talked at the Giants’ practice facility in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Artworks from the past, the recent past, and the present reverberate and scratch against each other with material and scalar heterogeneity, talking at, with, and beyond themselves.
    — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that OpenAI didn’t conclude its offtake talks at the data center with Nscale.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Trump is also expected to join for part of the Israel-Lebanon direct talks at the White House, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026

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