Example sentences for: german-speaking

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

  • Aside from nobility, most inhabitants of German-speaking central Europe started taking family names in the Middle Ages.

  • Many of those who visit country towns in German-speaking parts will be proudly shown the local Rathaus . They may well shudder at the thought that such a fine old building (actually a town hall) is rodent-infested.

  • A German-speaking stewardess, drafted into an interpretive role by the terrorists, played a heroic role by insisting that all of the Germanic-sounding names were really “pure” German, not Jewish.

  • But in my more than 70 years of speaking, reading and listening to Yiddish, I have never heard that word (or read it); also I've never heard any German-speaking person use it and say that it derives from Kies meaning small round stones (gravel).

  • There were many German-speaking Americans in Pennsylvania and other states; Dutch settlers in New York and elsewhere could learn to use German easily; German would be easy for other colonials to learn, since it was basically similar to English; the Hessians, German troop levies “rented” by the British, were deserting to the Americans and many wished to remain in America.


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