How to Use lingual in a Sentence

lingual

adjective
Definition of lingualnext
  • The charm is in the menu, packed with all sorts of Mexican delights, and the warm, multi-lingual-enough service.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The surgery can be necessary for infants when the lingual frenulum, the tissue that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth, is too tight, restricting the tongue's movement.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • An evergreen tale gets spruced up in this bi-lingual love story.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
  • Capsule: An evergreen tale gets spruced up in this bi-lingual love story.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The display of lingual lapis lazuli provides one of the intimate moments between human and animal at the Roos and Mates tour.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • At Henn-Na, dinosaurs, cyborgs, and other multi-lingual A.I. creatures check you in and drop off your bags, while all food comes from vending machines.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This character, who embraces life and is open to what love may bring, is played by the bi-lingual Matilda Lutz, who was born to an Italian mother and an American father.
    — Sunhee Grinnell, Vanities, 1 June 2017
  • In a beautiful bit of lingual mirroring, Daniel Craig was her love interest.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In February 2015, Chauvin tried to restrain a man by putting pressure on his lingual artery, which is below the chin bone, prosecutors wrote.
    — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Pablo Sandoval was a popular pick, as the bi-lingual infielder is a popular player with both teammates and fans.
    — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • More than one-third of Bank of America’s advertised positions called for bi-lingual workers.
    — Gwen Moran, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2019
  • So, as the Spanish lessons continue at Colts headquarters, Brissett is doing his best to be a little more multi-lingual on Sunday.
    — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The multi-lingual Herra is also recruited to help with their women’s programs, a position with more status than Nazir’s, and which requires her to speak to and sometimes be alone with men.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Davies’ gift for caustic witticisms is at its full strength in these scenes, in which Siegfried, for all his own lingual flair, is often overmatched by his paramours for sheer drawing-room-comedy vitriol.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • That will include everything from billboards to multi-lingual spots on social media.
    — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Led by bi-lingual host Romina Puga, the educational series of 16 episodes that combine live action, puppetry and animation, launched this year in the U.S.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 30 Nov. 2021
  • In what3words, La Poste has found a simple solution that instantly provides Côte d'Ivoire with a robust and multi-lingual addressing system.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Motorsport Network then launched Motor1.com, a multi-lingual car-shopping and auto review site that also includes classic and electric cars.
    — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 28 June 2017
  • Social media has been the site of lingual transformations, both playful and galvanizing.
    — Kylie Logan, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Social media has been the sit of lingual transformations, both playful and galvanizing.
    — Kylie Logan, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Philosophical and lingual deconstruction is an attempt, conscious or otherwise, to avoid being held to any standard which one doesn’t want to follow or believe in.
    — WSJ, 8 May 2018
  • Jazz is almost another character on Netflix's multi-lingual series produced by Chazelle, who directed the first two episodes.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 9 May 2020
  • Detecting hate speech seems to be one of Facebook’s biggest challenges, according to the report, since there can be lingual nuances that artificial intelligence can not yet detect.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 15 May 2018
  • Maldonado came along after that scandal, plays perhaps the most important communicative position on the club and is multi-lingual.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • To try and improve communications with members of minority communities who are most at risk for the virus, the state has hired bi-lingual contact tracers and hired people who live in 11 cities through a community outreach program.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • One concern, however, is for kids whose lingual or social development is atypical, Learmonth said.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Cody utilizes imagery, historic documents, multi-lingual erasure poems, and more to force a reckoning with history’s silence.
    — Sydney Williams, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Oberlin show, accompanied by a lavish, bi-lingual catalog, is another happy result of the Chiba-Oberlin partnership.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 May 2020
  • The coming-of-age romance centers on Elio (a super-smart, multi-lingual 17-year-old, played by Chalamet), who falls for his professor father’s visiting summer intern, graduate student Oliver (Hammer).
    — Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Kerala has also succeeded in distributing multi-lingual messaging, a powerful gesture that recognizes the migrant workers who do not speak the state’s official languages.
    — Ruth Michaelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020

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