How to Use Portuguese in a Sentence
Portuguese
noun- She is teaching her son Portuguese.
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And why, by the way, do all these Brits speak in Portuguese?
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
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Click here to see all the photos of 30 Portuguese Bend Road.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
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His mother, who is in Brazil, recorded the message for him in Portuguese.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
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Amma is a root word for 'mother' in Cherokee and 'love' in Portuguese.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
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For some older Portuguese, too, the specter of the hard right’s revival has been unsettling.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
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By the early 1990s, tens of millions of children watched her shows in Portuguese and Spanish.
—Ana Ionova, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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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
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In addition to French, de Paula speaks English and Portuguese.
—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
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As Brazilians sped by, an Indigenous teenager who barely spoke Portuguese gave birth to a son.
—Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
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The book was originally published in 1988 in Portuguese.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
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There was a nurse who spoke fluent Portuguese who helped Brazilian travelers.
—Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
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The narrative sequences are in Portuguese, except for one character who speaks in French.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The landslide system at Portuguese Bend has been hitting the accelerator.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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