1.   By the end of the year, the two old friends were no longer on speaking terms.

2.   He is barely on speaking terms with his father .

3.   Their leaders, who were once close personal friends, are no longer on speaking terms.

4.   Joe and his brother are barely on speaking terms.

5.   For a long time her mother and her grandmother had hardly been on speaking terms.

6.   She was not even on speaking terms with Anthony Swan, the Labour MP who had accompanied her to Paris three or four years before.

7.   She bit her lip, unable to remind him that they were hardly on speaking terms.

8.   Our nightly promenade up and down the road has put us on speaking terms with the whole neighbourhood.

9.   As any regular fan of the Dodgers know, Mondesi has never been on speaking terms with the base on balls.