Example sentences for: english-speaking

How can you use “english-speaking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The foregoing are facts, not a plea of any kind for anything except to urge those who enjoy VERBATIM, who have made it the highest-circulation popular language journal in the (English-speaking) world, to encourage others who share their interest to subscribe and to send in their renewals quickly.

  • The Dutch, most notably, have adopted an English expletive too coarse to reproduce here (though if I say, “hits the fan” I expect you'll be with me), but they use it as a mild and largely meaningless epithet, roughly equivalent to our gosh or golly or even just hmmmm --to such an extent, I am told that they must now take special care not to startle English-speaking visitors.

  • Pidgin loses much of its character when written, and it is a sad fact that both the writing and the speaking of it is discouraged today in many of West Africa's more modern schools for much the same reason, I suppose, that I remember many years ago being made to feel an outcast for having Gaelic as my mother tongue in an English-speaking school in my native Scotland.

  • English-speaking students eager to meet foreigners are numerous here.

  • They are strongly committed, vaguely, to some position on the spectrum, but they offer no reason why they are so intensely committed to this value that has become so powerful in the English-speaking West.


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