How to Use polyglot in a Sentence

polyglot

1 of 2 noun

• The apex of the language gambit seems to be those amazing polyglots that know a dozen or dozens of languages.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Frankie Light is what’s known on social media as a YouTube polyglot.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• This future was also foreign — or, more to the point, polyglot.
  — Piotr Orlov, Vulture, 19 May 2022
• Why is the galanthi’s human form a teenage polyglot named Myrtle?
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
• Thaer was an Iraqi lawyer and polyglot who spoke five languages and knew everyone.
  — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 28 Jan. 2017
• The former president is urbane, polyglot and out of touch.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• All that influx has made the city a decidedly polyglot place.
  — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• But despite that polyglot team, the vibe and sound are diverse but unified: clearly Uchis herself is setting the tone and calling the shots.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
• Truffaut’s polyglot art, seen in the Kino discs, puts all this year’s Oscar nominees to shame.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Feb. 2023
• For all their globe-trotting and polyglot panache, the financiers were no less insular than Tajik matrons.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The subprefecture of some remote French region may not be the dream of a polished polyglot envoy.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
• Its location, in one L.A.’s most polyglot corners, has been a mixed blessing.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Enter Email Sign Up The composer has always been a genre-blender, and the musicians’ polyglot nature plays well with his strengths.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• From one village to the next residents speak different languages, some of the almost 850 heard across the polyglot paradise.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2021
• Vorontsova is a polyglot, speaking English, German, French and Dutch.
  — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
• The future is represented by polyglot Lyse and by Brussels.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 4 Dec. 2022
• Burma, once lauded for its fine schools and polyglot cosmopolitanism, sank into penury.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Figure out how to communicate with these stubborn polyglots, and then check the solution here.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2018
• While some athletes are destined to embody their names, Stanton’s name — polyglot, lyrical and lengthy — may reveal something about him, too.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
• The text Wujing's man sent was a sentence fragment — a grammar faux pas that an exacting polyglot like Dembe would never make.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• The pop-culture polyglot known as Cher snuck quietly into Chicago this past weekend.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• Padnos, a cultured polyglot, had packed his middle-aged head with poetry.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
• Are Latin Americans themselves aware of these early Asians and their role in their already polyglot history?
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2011
• Like so much else in Louisiana, andouille reflects a polyglot blend of culture.
  — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• Since the release of her first album in 2005, the creative polyglot behind El Perro Del Mar has been exploring multiple genres, fields, and formats, all in the name of art.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2020
• The art-rock polyglot has become known in recent years for seething noise-punk (currently in the group Editrix) as well as harmoniously aslant bedroom pop recordings.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Here were folks with names nobody knows demonstrating a polyglot American ideal that’s felt all too endangered these last few years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• This peripatetic life perhaps accounts for the polyglot nature of his artistic career.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
• Forget the tourist Chinatown a block to the east on Grant Avenue; this is a polyglot landscape of languages and cultures, ever-varied yet robustly itself.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023
• In 1928, the polyglot Chambers was hearing of European horrors from Jews and other minorities.
  — WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022

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polyglot

2 of 2 adjective

• Matthias Pintscher, in the pit, found the connecting threads in Neuwirth’s polyglot score.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• So the layered, textured, polyglot funk of the LP was layered and textured afresh.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
• Rocko got his start in Chicago, and his team is a polyglot band of specialists.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• What those songs really turned out to be were the purest displays of her polyglot approach.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• Café Alaska was not so much a place of refreshment as a carousel of human comedies spun around the noisy grinding of coffee beans and furnished with a rack of polyglot newspapers on the far wall.
  — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• In the other, an experienced, polyglot diplomat who has served as ambassador to both Turkey and Iraq gave a picture of chaos and calamity.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Karachi, a huge, polyglot trading city built up from waves of refugees, is an uncomfortable appendage to the rural, backward Sindhi-speaking province of Sindh.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• The music’s polyglot effervescence seems to bubble up from every corner of the orchestra.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Coffee culture & seafood in Trieste The twisty-turny history of this polyglot port is evident in the diversity of its culinary landscape.
  — Wendy Ramunno, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
• For Vargas Llosa, London had long been a model of how polyglot pluralism, democracy and free markets should work together.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• In Sanchez’s hands, pastiche is not only a reflection of our polyglot image empire but also a way of exposing the mechanisms by which that empire functions.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• Sándor Csoma de K?rös, a polyglot Transylvanian, set out on a similar journey, making it all the way to Tibet.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
• Bomberger’s book leaves one with the uneasy feeling that the First World War encouraged the rise of an American musical chauvinism, one that restricted the polyglot makeup of the nation’s culture at the turn of the last century.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
• For years Kirkuk’s heterogeneous population has largely left Iraq’s identity wars at the city gates and continued their polyglot ways.
  — The Economist, 15 Sep. 2017
• Washington’s subtle, dynamic and flexible short stories crack open a vibrant, polyglot side of Houston about which few outsiders are aware.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
• Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, 59, a polyglot gourmet cook, has been a steadfast Merkel loyalist, taking on taken some of the toughest jobs for the chancellor.
  — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• The choice is ultimately not between an Anglophone Europe and a truly polyglot Europe but between wishful thinking and realism.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The brand most closely associated with the polyglot designer has released a new podcast featuring one of Lagerfeld’s final interviews.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2019
• Support for the ideals of diversity and tolerance on the one hand and fears of tribalism and social fragmentation on the other collide on almost every page, beginning in the chaotic, polyglot trading outpost that was New Amsterdam.
  — Kay Hymowitz, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2016
• With Legrand’s death earlier this year at the age of 86, Tana decided to put together a program focusing on the songwriter’s standards, featuring the lustrous and appropriately polyglot vocalist Jackie Ryan.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
• Consider the Philadelphia 76ers, whose polyglot roster includes players from seven countries.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
• Non-professional Cardona, a performer with natural dignity and an ability to project concern, does fine work as Jose, and filmmaker McKay expertly conveys the sense of a polyglot neighborhood where multi-culturalism is lived, not theorized about.
  — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Hannibal led that army, a polyglot assemblage of African and Iberian peoples, to three successive victories over numerically superior Roman forces.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 7 July 2017
• Its visual language, its byzantine plotting, its go-for-broke expansiveness are all irresistibly polyglot: Bollywood maximalism meets downbeat Euro noir meets Hollywood gangster epic.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 20 July 2018
• Matthias Pintscher, in the pit, found the connecting threads in Neuwirth’s polyglot score.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• So the layered, textured, polyglot funk of the LP was layered and textured afresh.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
• Rocko got his start in Chicago, and his team is a polyglot band of specialists.
  — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
• What those songs really turned out to be were the purest displays of her polyglot approach.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• Café Alaska was not so much a place of refreshment as a carousel of human comedies spun around the noisy grinding of coffee beans and furnished with a rack of polyglot newspapers on the far wall.
  — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• In the other, an experienced, polyglot diplomat who has served as ambassador to both Turkey and Iraq gave a picture of chaos and calamity.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019

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