How to Use Portuguese in a Sentence

Portuguese

noun

• She is teaching her son Portuguese.
• And why, by the way, do all these Brits speak in Portuguese?
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
• Click here to see all the photos of 30 Portuguese Bend Road.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
• His mother, who is in Brazil, recorded the message for him in Portuguese.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
• Amma is a root word for 'mother' in Cherokee and 'love' in Portuguese.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• For some older Portuguese, too, the specter of the hard right’s revival has been unsettling.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Its name is a quirk of translation: In Portuguese, limão is the word for lime, which means the drink is called limonada.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• By the early 1990s, tens of millions of children watched her shows in Portuguese and Spanish.
  — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The oldest and largest, Portuguese Bend, was activated in 1956, starting the land’s slow descent to the sea.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• In addition to French, de Paula speaks English and Portuguese.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• And though the lyrics are in Portuguese, their political passion comes through.
  — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
• In Portuguese, pousadas means inns, but has now come to be the name for the government’s historic buildings turned hotels.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• The lyrics were in Portuguese, but not even another language posed an obstacle to reaching the top charts.
  — Felipe Maia, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
• As Brazilians sped by, an Indigenous teenager who barely spoke Portuguese gave birth to a son.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• The book was originally published in 1988 in Portuguese.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
• There was a nurse who spoke fluent Portuguese who helped Brazilian travelers.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• Late last month, a small fire burned in Portuguese Bend after a power line fell and sparked nearby vegetation.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
• During her first show on Friday, May 24, Swift surprised fans by speaking Portuguese.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
• The narrative sequences are in Portuguese, except for one character who speaks in French.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
• The homes are not far from Portuguese Bend, where the peninsula’s most dramatic landslide complex covers 240 acres.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Latham is fluent in Spanish, French and Portuguese, and is a registered Democrat.
  — Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 18 July 2024
• In spite of the fact that about 98% of its population speak Portuguese, Brazil has a huge linguistic diversity.
  — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• The region, known as the Southern Cone, has produced wine since the 16th century, when the Spanish and Portuguese arrived on the continent, according to a news release.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
• At 30, Anitta has been cultivating her persona and her career for more than a decade, singing in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 29 May 2023
• The cinema, where American poetry was read in Portuguese, was condemned as a safety hazard in 2020 and knocked down.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• Clearview has built a dedicated team selling its services to Latin America, and has made its tools available in Spanish and Portuguese.
  — Vera Bergengruen, TIME, 18 June 2024
• The homegrown Portuguese Octant Hotels group was born in 2022 as a collection of super-chic boutique hotels with an ultra-local ethos.
  — Sarah Khan, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2023
• The landslide system at Portuguese Bend has been hitting the accelerator.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• The newsletter also conflated that 2023 slide with the slow-moving ongoing slide at nearby Portuguese Bend.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• Taking over the ailing Peugeot Citroen a decade ago, the native Portuguese built the French group into the world’s fifth largest carmaker through savvy dealmaking and a ruthless focus on efficiency.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024