How to Use translation in a Sentence

translation

noun
  • She is working on a translation of the novel.
  • There were English translations on the menu.
  • All the Lovers in the Night is a new novel, once more a translation from Bett and Boyd.
    Idra Novey, The Atlantic, 22 May 2022
  • Their first task was a translation of the game’s Star Wars-style opening scroll.
    Aidan Moher, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Four more translations from the author are in the pipeline.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Life might require a bit of translation for the time being.
    Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The text is similar to the King James translation of the Bible used in many Protestant churches.
    Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • The whole thing was just a poor, diluted translation of the Hebrew word.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
  • First of all, Kevin [Feige] didn't want to make a literal translation of what was in the comic book.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 July 2022
  • By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
    Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
  • But the award placed the book at the center of a fierce debate about literary translations.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Screens on either side of the black box stage provide the English translation.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But the flavor, the gusto, of the endeavor gets lost in translation.
    Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Her cloned voice can only be used for this book’s translations.
    Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • True to the name's translation, the bag became Diana's favorite.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the details about Tracy may have gotten lost in time or lost in translation.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 30 Apr. 2022
  • About that … By the looks of Kunz’s hands, something about tug-of-war being an injury-free sport was lost in translation.
    Joseph Goodman, al, 14 July 2022
  • And that, at times, was what got lost for the Heat in the translation, beyond Jimmy Butler’s self-willing.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • Refugee students must now make the switch to French, and government forms need translation.
    Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But if the user came back a month later, the model wouldn’t instantly know how to do the same translation.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In those cases, the team will hold a three-way call with Language Line staff who provide translation.
    Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2023
  • That last phrase, by the way, had U.K. newspapers scrambling for a translation.
    Greg Palkot, Fox News, 8 July 2022
  • Perhaps via the word-to-word translation of a German joke about a shoemaker.
    Sam Corbin, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • The series’ success in Ukraine was partly down to the high quality of its translation.
    Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Tynedale paid for his assertive, personal translation with a one-way visit to the stake.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In one instance, small adjustments to the translation were made to provide context that would have been clear to the speaker.
    New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • As with all great acts of translation, Mullen’s methods may be unknowable to us.
    Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Still, what Netflix’s Solitude has done, mostly for the better, is reject making a literal translation of the book in favor of an evocative one.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Doctors believe the two incidents are linked, according to a translation of the hospital’s medical report.
    Hannah Peart, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024

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