How to Use language in a Sentence

language

noun

• How many languages do you speak?
• French is her first language.
• He is always careful in his use of language.
• She expressed her ideas using simple and clear language.
• The book has been translated into several languages.
• He's learning English as a second language.
• The Army goes to a small town in Iraq, doesn’t speak the language.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• The vagueness of the language sent a chill through the book program.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Not of language, but of the life in El Salvador and the life in the United States.
  — Javier Zamora, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• Those kind of threats and that kind of language need to be condemned by all sides and all faiths.
  — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2022
• The study of ape language is a field of broken promises.
  — Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
• Then in the film world, music for me is a visual language.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
• The nods are in the music but also in the language surrounding the album.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• The members of the group had a lot of different ideas about what language the lyrics should be in.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• Still, the summary language is sure to sway some people at the polls.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
• Notably, 92 Democrats voted present due to concerns with the language in the bill.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• The game has since sold millions of copies in more than 40 languages worldwide.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• And yet, his language about men could have been at home at just about any of the pro-life events marking what would ...
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 30 Jan. 2023
• Even so, Google Translate still struggles to keep up with all the ways language evolves.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
• The language would need to be sorted out between the two bills in order to make it to the governor’s desk.
  — Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
• David wrote a lot of very difficult language, but Paul was right there on it.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2023
• The second question stemmed from the unique language of the Second Amendment.
  — Saul Cornell / Made By History, TIME, 26 July 2024
• And then all the language about what's going to happen with high heating prices.
  — ABC News, 30 Oct. 2022
• In 1913, English was adopted as the sole language of the church and its Sunday school programs.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2023
• This type of language positions drag as some sort of threat.
  — William Lee Adams, ELLE, 10 May 2023
• The show has some fun modern touches, from its music to some of the language of the dialogue.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• For many in the region, such language smacks of a dangerous kind of weakness rather than strength.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
• Even if its language is set to Klingon, as Reid AI offers at one point.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
• Given the baroque language of the text, not to mention the metaphysical events within the narrative itself, Dieter’s exact exploits remain open for interpretation.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
• As linguists and geneticists continue to untangle the origins of Indo-European languages, one thing is clear—the story of language is one of movement, change and cultural exchange, far from the rigid, nationalist narratives of the past.
  — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025