after-dinner speech

Frank was good at after-dinner speeches, and now he used fragments from ones I'd heard many times before.

There are functions to attend, after-dinner speeches to be made.

And it worked because people - especially in an after-dinner speech - want to be entertained.

The result is a satirical autobiography, told in the form of an after-dinner speech.

Her after-dinner speech had little fire or even New York politics in it.

Each one has a tall, arched top that could provide a head rest during a lengthy after-dinner speech.

No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry.

Under those two gentlemen I learned to make after-dinner speeches, and it was charming.

Are they merely a version of an after-dinner speech, denoting that it is time to go home?

But you can understand why I'm not too keen on after-dinner speeches.