How to Use voluble in a Sentence

voluble

adjective
  • Andy Hicks is a big, voluble, tattooed dude with long straggly hair and beard.
    — New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For once, Abouzeid said while laughing, the voluble Reynolds was at a loss for words.
    — Joe Swickard, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2022
  • More voluble still is the bunch of Russians, mostly old ladies, who shouldn’t even be in the van.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Marshall is as dry and insightful as Hobbes is voluble and sharp.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2021
  • Scott, thus far quick-witted and voluble, has begun to weigh his words carefully.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • Iran has expressed voluble support for Hamas since the war began.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Democrats have been less voluble about one of their party’s most powerful politicians.
    — Charles Hutzler, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • At its best, the concert glimpsed them as living, voluble company.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
  • But Menard could be just as voluble in his defense of the colonization plan.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Burly and voluble, Dimitry is the closest anyone in the movie comes to having a pulse.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2022
  • On the sidelines & in the booth, this voluble mountain of energy was a trailblazer.
    — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Ched, the more voluble of the pair, is a charmer and a schmoozer; Maria is reserved and, initially, a bit prickly.
    — Nathan Burstein, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
  • One day, a large and voluble family rolls up and establishes a makeshift home beside her lonely dwelling.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
  • The editor is also the more voluble and philosophical of the two.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Amiable and voluble, Li speaks with the rhetorical flourish of a man who has told his story often.
    — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The voluble Comey is a contrast to Mueller, who's quite comfortable with short answers.
    — David Bauder, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The voluble American pro-Putin chorus has folded like a cheap suit.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Hostility to such politics has been voluble and loud.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The approach seemed suited to Cox’s personal reserve, which stands out in a realm where voluble backslappers are the norm.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Sohel told him of the orderly people there and the discipline, too voluble, running away from the awful subject at hand.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This voluble pair will move on from Viceland after signing a deal with Showtime to host that network’s first weekly talk show.
    — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • His father was a voluble and swaggering man and a beloved figure in the firm’s equities division, known as Coach to the floor traders.
    — Jason Zengerle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The movie is built around an interview with the legendary 91-year-old actor, still vigorous and voluble, with a seize-the-day cornball glow to him.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The bleachers beside the benches were nearly full and accordingly voluble.
    — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That is how the country’s voluble foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, likes to describe it.
    — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Robert is warm and voluble, with a fringe of steel-gray hair and baggy jeans; Michelle, who is sixty, is more of a fashion plate, in leather boots and hip tortoiseshell glasses.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • San Miguel is the voluble extrovert, wearing rage and fear as well as love and regret on her sleeve – even in a terrific scene unfolding in sign language.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The charismatic, voluble, and pensive Belarmino, with his long presence in the public eye, doesn’t so much thrive in front of the camera as bare his soul to it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Tony Walker, once a voluble boy who hoped to become a star jockey and instead became a taxi driver, said Apted was like a brother to him.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • There was a voluble debate within the FDA over whether the treatment actually worked.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 24 Jan. 2020

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