How to Use language in a Sentence

language

noun
  • How many languages do you speak?
  • French is her first language.
  • He is always careful in his use of language.
  • She expressed her ideas using simple and clear language.
  • The book has been translated into several languages.
  • He's learning English as a second language.
  • The Army goes to a small town in Iraq, doesn’t speak the language.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The vagueness of the language sent a chill through the book program.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Not of language, but of the life in El Salvador and the life in the United States.
    — Javier Zamora, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Those kind of threats and that kind of language need to be condemned by all sides and all faiths.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The study of ape language is a field of broken promises.
    — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • Then in the film world, music for me is a visual language.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The nods are in the music but also in the language surrounding the album.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The members of the group had a lot of different ideas about what language the lyrics should be in.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The steak house speaks its own language, no matter how much of the menu is retitled in French.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Still, the summary language is sure to sway some people at the polls.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Notably, 92 Democrats voted present due to concerns with the language in the bill.
    — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The game has since sold millions of copies in more than 40 languages worldwide.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
  • And yet, his language about men could have been at home at just about any of the pro-life events marking what would ...
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Even so, Google Translate still struggles to keep up with all the ways language evolves.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The language would need to be sorted out between the two bills in order to make it to the governor’s desk.
    — Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
  • David wrote a lot of very difficult language, but Paul was right there on it.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The second question stemmed from the unique language of the Second Amendment.
    — Saul Cornell / Made By History, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • And then all the language about what's going to happen with high heating prices.
    — ABC News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • In 1913, English was adopted as the sole language of the church and its Sunday school programs.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2023
  • This type of language positions drag as some sort of threat.
    — William Lee Adams, ELLE, 10 May 2023
  • The show has some fun modern touches, from its music to some of the language of the dialogue.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022
  • For many in the region, such language smacks of a dangerous kind of weakness rather than strength.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • As a result of the talks, Sainz will not be reported to the stewards, meaning there will be no action taken against him over his language as there was against both Verstappen and Leclerc.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Each class is a one- hour adventure of hearing and speaking another language.
    — Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025

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