How to Use the English in a Sentence

the English

noun
Definition of the Englishnext
  • The city is about 200 miles southeast of London and across the English Channel.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The two clubs are set to meet each other on Sunday in the English League Cup final.
    — Simone Foxman, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Tour by fellow veterans of the New Wave years the English Beat.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2024
  • But in the end, some of my favorite shows are two seasons and a special, like the English Office.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But Tom Hecker, who swam across the English Channel in 2005, said there should be no judgments.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Critics pounced on him for gambling on the lives of people who make crossings of the English Channel in small boats.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Some monarchs are honored with statues; the English are partial to this method.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 19 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a new kid on the English Channel block as a new train company aims to launch high-speed service from London to Paris.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Trains travel between the two cities via the 31-mile-long Channel Tunnel, which runs under the waters of the English Channel.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Everything was tiny, from the cars to the terrace houses where people lived, and the English had pale bodies, gray teeth, and odd habits: even the children drank tea.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But the Conservatives, who have held power for 13 years, have framed the debate around a rise in small boats crossing the English Channel.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Sunak has failed to fulfill his promise to stop asylum seekers from crossing the English Channel in small boats.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Scotsmen have a reputation for being tight with a penny, but the English give them a good run for their money.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Filling the air with spittle as plentiful as the Allied bombs raining down along the English Channel.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The family of famed long-distance swimmer Florence Chadwick, who set records swimming the English Channel, once owned much of the land.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Also, the fluidity between the English and the Korean is so smooth.
    — Pitchfork, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Americans have long had a difficult time accepting just how bleak the English are willing to get for laughs.
    — Cord Jefferson, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In the last five years, for instance, thousands of people have started making the dangerous journey from France across the English Channel in small boats.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Some are sandy coves, washed out of the schist coastline by the English Channel, while others are tidal, emerging along estuary creeks and river valleys.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • Recently, workers wrapped up a year-long project to install 438 solar panels on the English Gothic church’s roof.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
  • British costumer Ruth Myers made period pieces look more wearable than ever, while Paltrow had the English accent down to a tee.
    — Susan Devaney, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Anne was Henry’s second wife, a strong-willed, worldly woman whose refusal to become the king’s mistress pushed him to break with Rome and launch the English Reformation.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But the plot makes for an inauspicious beginning, as Hank’s role as chair of the English Department falls into jeopardy.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Language is also important in the episode, starting with the fact that in the flashback, the young Native characters don’t understand the English that their captors are speaking.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • As the convoy made its way down the English Channel toward the Atlantic, it was surrounded by other departing ships, jockeying for wind and space.
    — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Dortmund wants to put together a €15 million ($16 million) a season package to keep the English midfielder in Germany.
    — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
  • In 1967, the English returned the arboreal favor, sending four tiny oak trees descended from those grown at Winston Churchill’s Blenheim estate.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • At first, hardy Highlanders developed the tartan kilt in the 16th century, attire perfectly suited to the landscape, where Scots had to climb hills, traverse bogs, and fight the English with agility in all weather.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Asylum seekers who have crossed the English Channel by boat have remained in hotels, but the government aims to end that program and move them to different facilities.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The immediate problem is what to do about migrants who cross the English Channel illegally (and dangerously) in small boats.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023

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