Example sentences for: languages

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

  • I have long been fascinated by the way idioms and phrases are often used to express the same concept in a completely different way in different languages.

  • Essentially, he proposes that the parent of all Indo-European languages was itself born in central Anatolia, whence it spread eastward, westward, and northward, being modified by the influences of the languages with which it came into contact, till it ultimately emerged in its recognizable, modern manifestations which we categorize into Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Armenian, Celtic, Tocharian, Albanian, and BaltoSlavic.

  • It includes product profiles, describing the main features and noteworthy multilingual or foreign language capabilities, computer and software requirements, languages supported, any known reviews, and price information in local currency (but with currency conversion), detailed costs of shipping and technical support as well as credit card and other charges.

  • We might well inquire whether a language lacking a certain distinction (like that between eyelids and eyelashes) also lacks other distinctions (and shares the lacks with other languages).

  • According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.


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