How to Use Spanish in a Sentence
Spanish
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In Spanish, there are two different words for the verb to be.
— Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2023 -
Want to watch the Spain vs. England soccer game in Spanish?
— Tim Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023 -
In audio of the 911 call, Castro can be heard in the background screaming for help in Spanish.
— Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024 -
Students will be taught half the day in English and half the day in Spanish, with the goal of being able to read, write and speak in both languages.
— Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024 -
Like the album title suggests in Spanish, the project was a thrilling start for Frontera.
— Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024 -
Customers whose phones are set to the Spanish language will get the message in Spanish.
— Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023 -
But the most haunting place in the collection was Estación Canfranc, high in the Spanish Pyrenees.
— Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024 -
Phones that are programmed to Spanish will see the same message in their preferred language.
— Solcyre Burga, TIME, 4 Oct. 2023 -
Aquino said his daughters often speak Spanish with some of the other students at school.
— Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 28 Aug. 2023 -
My dreams are to represent the Latina women in film, both in English and Spanish.
— Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024 -
All of these free resources are available in English and Spanish on Sesame's website.
— Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 1 Nov. 2023 -
Performing mostly in Spanish, the 30-year-old King of Trap has shown that Latin music is now a mainstream genre.
— Lisette Voytko-Best, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Over the years, Barbi’s children have wondered if there is an elf who speaks Italian, why there isn’t one who speaks Spanish?
— Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023 -
Miami is so fun and so crazy, so Spanish, so much dancing, so many people speak in Spanish, in like the streets.
— Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Hunters come to subdue the feral descendants of goats and pigs introduced by the Spanish.
— Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024 -
Her father is both Dutch and Swiss, while her mother is English and Spanish, per her website.
— Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023 -
In the clip, Benito squares up against his own clone, trading insults in both English and Spanish.
— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023 -
A lot of people call her mariposa, which is ‘butterfly’ in Spanish.
— Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2023 -
His first win on the circuit would not arrive until six years and 185 starts later at the Spanish Open last October.
— Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024 -
One of his workers, who is Latin American and spoke with them in Spanish, told him the migrants had just crossed from Canada and were looking for work.
— Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024 -
Fremaux was interviewed in Spanish talking with the marked Porteño accent of Buenos Aires.
— John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023 -
The Spanish then founded the first and oldest city in America, St. Augustine, in 1565.
— CBS News, 9 Oct. 2023 -
His mother, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from the Greek island of Rhodes, taught Spanish at a local high school.
— Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 11 July 2023 -
There are three types of tarragon: French, Russian, and Mexican (aka Spanish).
— Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 July 2024 -
This is a book in Spanish written about mostly Spanish-language artists.
— Isabelia Herrera, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Smith said officers found that man outside and gave him orders in English and Spanish.
— Emily Davies, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023 -
The prose, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, is sublime, profane, and propulsive.
— The New Yorker, 9 July 2023 -
Books in English and Spanish can also be purchased online at uwsd.org/raa.
— Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024 -
This version was translated and adapted from the Spanish by John Newton.
— Clara Laguna, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2023 -
Maria filmed Mildred and the other foster children singing songs in Spanish in the family’s minivan.
— Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
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