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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Indeed, the small cafe and market was buzzy on a recent weekday afternoon, with conversation flowing in both English and Portuguese.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2024
• In an effort to draw Cavalcante out, law enforcement broadcast a message from his mother in Portuguese from speakers in cars and helicopters.
  — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
• As if on cue, a pedestrian walking down the sidewalk notices her, exclaims, rushes over for a hug, and encourages Ms. Chandler to keep practicing her Portuguese.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2024
• But nothing on the menu sums up the location as smartly as its snappy garlic-and-white-wine sauté of sausage and Rhode Island clams, a tribute to the state’s sizable population of Portuguese Americans — and of mollusks.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2023
• Named for the site’s prior life as a kitchen-utensils factory, the Rebello’s fine-dining restaurant serves fantastic modern Portuguese.
  — Jessamine Chan, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
• The Erasmus was once part of a five-vessel Dutch fleet with 500 sailors, but after years of skirmishes with the Spanish and Portuguese, plus rampant vitamin deficiencies, only a dozen men remain.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
• Among the specific impacts listed by the young Portuguese are being unable to sleep, concentrate, play outside, or exercise during heat waves.
  — Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• While most surrounded her, there were also other volunteers to assist those who spoke Portuguese or French, or used translation apps for other languages.
  — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2024
• Some local schools closed, helicopters scoured the area, police provided 24-hour protection to the family of his victim, and patrol cars blared audio of Cavalcante’s mother appealing to him in Portuguese to surrender.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Associated Press has reported have been broadcasting a message in Portuguese recorded by his mother, urging him to peacefully surrender.
  — Vinny Vella, al, 13 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024