spoken for

"We haven't spoken for years and he thinks I'm a disgrace. These things are what pain is to me."

You don’t have to know what those words mean — only notice, perhaps, that the very same dry Chablis voice describing it has spoken for Mercedes-Benz since 2010.

After she had spoken for 90 seconds, her mic was cut off.

The daughter of a mining union official has spoken for the first time about how her family faced kidnap threats during the 1984 miners' strike.

You had to expect popular musicians, including artists who have generated protest anthems and spoken for the marginalized, to speak loudly about some of those issues.