How to Use linguist in a Sentence

linguist

noun

• Cass the linguist appears in the source book not at all.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2018
• Later, as a learning linguist, the 22-year-old made plans to schmooze with the boss.
  — Candace Buckner, courant.com, 4 June 2019
• An Iraqi man approached Kim, his team chief, a linguist and a source.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 May 2017
• Both the film and the story are about a linguist who is trying to make sense of an alien language.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2021
• Adam Albright, a linguist at MIT who wasn't involved with the study, says in an email.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2019
• According to linguists, jawn comes from the word joint.
  — Howard Gensler, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• But the 95-year-old linguist, by all public accounts, is not dead yet.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 10 June 2024
• In 1932, a linguist by the name of George Zipf had his students count the letters in the book Ulysses to see how many there were of each letter.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• Steven Pinker, the renowned linguist and author of the book The Language Instinct, sees the project with a fair amount of skepticism.
  — Christoph Droesser, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• Greene, who is fluent in German, was hired by the FBI as a contract linguist in 2011.
  — Scott Glover and Eric Lichtblau, CNN, 10 May 2017
• The young queen was an adept linguist, fluent in both English and German.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 4 Jan. 2018
• These linguists concluded that Corneille must have been the true author of Molière’s plays.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 27 Nov. 2019
• Then came the backlash, from linguists and experts in sign languages.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• That makes them a keen topic of interest to linguists like Philip Seargeant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2019
• Painter John Whorf and linguist Benjamin Whorf were his uncles.
  — Mike Barnes, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2017
• Some, like liberal linguist George Lakoff, see the tweets as a deliberate way to shape the news and feed his base.
  — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2018
• Adams, 39, is an Alaska Native linguist and an artist, and is Gwich’in Athabascan.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 15 July 2019
• Villagers on a remote island off the Irish coast are visited in the summer of 1979 by a British painter and a French linguist.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 May 2022
• The project’s three linguists met recently to compare notes.
  — Alex Carp, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• SyFy suddenly needed a linguist who could build a language out of dozens of parts.
  — Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
• Jane Solomon, linguist-in-residence at Dictionary.com said in a statement.
  — Emily Price, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
• But in my opinion as a German American and a linguist, this one turns out to be nearly true.
  — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2022
• During the war in Afghanistan, Ali served as a linguist for U.S. forces, working as a contractor for the military.
  — Natalie Brand, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2021
• How to change this One of the rewards of being a linguist is to see the possible applications of the research in the real world.
  — Patricia Friedrich, Quartz at Work, 8 Dec. 2019
• Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction.
  — Brittany Shoot, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• As these ways of speaking disappear, some linguists say, so, too, do ways of thinking.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• There is the tongue of the country, and then a distinctive local idiom known to linguists as Browns bemoaning.
  — Sean Gregory/cleveland, Time, 22 Aug. 2019
• Winner, who speaks Pashto, Farsi, and Dari, served in Maryland as a linguist.
  — Thomas MacMillan, Cosmopolitan, 28 Sep. 2017
• Women and men tend to have different speech patterns, linguists will tell you.
  — Jessica Bennett, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2019
• Adam Aleksic is a Gen Z linguist and content creator posting educational videos under the username @etymologynerd.
  — Adam Aleksic, Washington Post, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024