How to Use trilingual in a Sentence
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The house soon filled with the trilingual sticky notes.
—USA Today, 16 Apr. 2021
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Oh, and this is all while flexing her trilingual skills throughout the LP.
—Lucas Villa, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2022
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On the wall, a trilingual menu scrolled through nearly 100 items in the dinner buffet.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
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The difficulty of the role was in part due to the Apple TV+ miniseries being a trilingual show.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2022
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A few years ago, trilingual street signs — in Italian, Hebrew and Arabic — were put up as markers in the area in a nod to the city’s rich past.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
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Becky didn’t miss a beat of the trilingual track’s playful choreography and showed why this set was a once-in-a-lifetime moment.
—Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2022
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This trilingual greeting is common among the Lebanese, many of whom speak at least three languages, often in one sentence.
—Lulu Seikaly, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2020
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And a trilingual front sign gives away the multicultural blend.
—Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 June 2022
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Her high-energy and fierce set at the Gobi stage lured in fans who not once stopped dancing to her trilingual techno and pop anthems.
—Griselda Flores, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2022
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Becky G even wrote a special note on her Instagram about the two pop stars coming together for a trilingual song.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 27 Sep. 2019
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The resulting break proved unbridgeable until the discovery, in 1799, of the now-famous trilingual slab at the port of Rosetta.
—Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2020
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Chef Lupe Liang and his trilingual menu embodied the spirit of Chinatown.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
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In 20 years, my field has gone from thinking of bacteria as asocial recluses to seeing them as at least being trilingual.
—Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2014
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Mr. Guengueng is trilingual, but English has been difficult.
—Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
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Teachers and parents here speak of trilingual aspirations, and the sounds of Spanish, Korean and English can be heard throughout the playground.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
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Her setlist included hits from her whole career, including her latest album, the trilingual Versions of Me.
—Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2022
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Anitta, 29 Brazilian pop titan Anitta has ascended the charts with her trilingual music.
—Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2022
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Most are already bi- or trilingual, switching with ease into English or another language when abroad.
—Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
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Contrary to popular misconception, the Rosetta Stone isn’t a trilingual text.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
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Known as the Rosetta Stone, this trilingual slab presented an unmatched opportunity to unlock the stories of the Ancient Egyptians.
—Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
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Known as the Rosetta Stone, this trilingual slab presented an unmatched opportunity to unlock the stories of the Ancient Egyptians.
—Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
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Even after the parish held its final Mass in a trilingual service in 2019, the Society of St. Adalbert and other community groups have rallied for the church’s reinstatement as a sacred space.
—Jordan Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
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Texts were read in Spanish, English and Italian, which is why many of the workers were trilingual despite receiving little formal education.
—Jennifer Simonson, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
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The album has been more than three years in the making, morphing over time into an ecstatic, trilingual synthesis of global sounds — fearless, fun, and audacious, like Anitta herself.
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2022
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In addition to her attempt to become trilingual, Fudd and other Huskies have enjoyed learning about the various backgrounds of their international teammates.
—Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 5 Nov. 2022
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She’s the latest Brazilian artist to deliver a trilingual project with collaborators from other continents, following the likes of Pabllo Vittar.
—Chris Malone Méndez, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
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The city also hired a trilingual city employee fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and collaborated with community groups on voter outreach.
—NBC News, 10 Dec. 2020
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The series is trilingual, with Korean and Japanese represented in different colored subtitles, English being the third language; who can or cannot understand whom adds a layer to the characters, and to the storytelling.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
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And take languages seriously; bi- and trilingual candidates are always preferred.
—miamiherald, 11 June 2017
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For López, these heroines include women like Mercedes Floresislas, who was once an unhoused single parent and is now a social worker and playwright specializing in trilingual productions.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2021
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