How to Use language in a Sentence

language

noun
Definition of languagenext
Synonyms for languagenext
  • She expressed her ideas using simple and clear language.
  • Your ability to form sentences in, maybe, your third language ...
    — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2024
  • Even if its language is set to Klingon, as Reid AI offers at one point.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • The language and allegations are similar in each lawsuit, and the victims are young girls and boys.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 26 May 2024
  • Trump has released few hard numbers and no real policy language or legislative blueprints.
    — Josh Boak, Fortune, 15 July 2024
  • Although the results were in line with trends in other places, the finding alarmed many in a city that has long prided itself on its ability to speak the global language of business.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Williams said that language referred to existing CPSC standards for things like flammability and lead.
    — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • The committee split 3-2 on a motion to direct the city attorney to work with the commission to draft language that could be presented to voters in November.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In 1913, English was adopted as the sole language of the church and its Sunday school programs.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2023
  • For many in the region, such language smacks of a dangerous kind of weakness rather than strength.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Babies who are read to tend to develop strong reading and language skills down the road.
    — Brienne Walsh, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The two votes were over whether to change the Irish constitution to remove language stating ...
    — Henry Olsen, National Review, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There are other great language learning apps, of course.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Aune said she’s been revising the exact language of the measure.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There’s language about the responsibilities of the enslaved and of masters in the Bible.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
  • While this language isn't new to the GOP playbook, Ramaswamy has at times gone further than some of his rivals.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 July 2024
  • Nuanced language and cancel-free ways to reason about it will emerge.
    — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Creer said the 133 available languages on the website come from everything Google can translate.
    — Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The contractual language states that owners who try to sell the EV within the first year might not be able to buy future Teslas.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The student protests had inflamed the punditry class; the media was now talking about speech and language instead of displacement and killing.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

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