Example sentences for: spoken

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

  • The effectiveness of the policy can be seen by making a quick analysis of the language spoken by Oliver Twist: Dickens, qua social reformer, knew perfectly well that if Oliver hadn't somehow come to speak the Queen's English, he wouldn't have made it.

  • The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).

  • Away from tourist resorts and shopping areas, rarely will any language be spoken except French and the mystifying Creole patois, which, though based on French, is almost incomprehensible to anyone not used to it — even non-initiated French-speakers.

  • Charles V held that Spanish should be spoken to the gods, French to men, Italian to the ladies, German to soldiers, English to geese, Hungarian to horses and Bohemian to the Devil ...

  • I am not aware of any studies comparing the number of words an average person could expect to hear spoken in a typical day 500 years ago vs. the number that can be heard now, but the increase surely is vast.


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