11.   His speeches are peppered with jokes, often aimed at himself, that keep his audiences attentive and ready for his more serious moments.

12.   Her speech was not peppered with The Word, it was marinated, breaded and deep-fried in it.

13.   His square-jawed countenance often breaks into wide grins, his precise speech is often peppered with brisk witticisms and congenial asides.

14.   In the show, adults and teen-agers alike pepper their speech freely, though not ostentatiously, with black English, including black slang.

15.   She speaks in slow, didactic cadences and peppers her speech with cultural-studies jargon and New Age psychobabble.

16.   She peppers her speech with his favorite slogans, derived from Oriental philosophers and Japanese industrial management theories.

17.   The expletives, insults and gibes that used to pepper his speeches are gone.

18.   The president peppered his speech with predictable baseball metaphors and, naturally, tried to siphon some glory from the coattails of the wondrous Tiger Woods.

19.   Everyday Russian speech is peppered with English words, and radio stations favor American and British songs.

20.   He peppered his speeches with Spanish phrases when he was governor of Texas.