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Example sentences for "language"

Lexicographically close words:
lango; langour; langs; langsam; langsyne; languaged; languages; langue; langues; languid
  1. In this connection it is of interest to note that in the English language the common fowl has no distinctive name.

  2. There is one best way to pay the debt, and that way is to take such a lively interest in the birds that we shall want to know all about their lives and as much as we can learn about the language they speak and the thoughts they have.

  3. Coverdale's translation is not "ungrammatical" as far as the Hebrew language is concerned, notwithstanding that it was rejected in the reign of James I.

  4. The value of the Eskimo language to him, however, Eric never realized until the close of his third year.

  5. Entirely forgetting that when one is learning any language one must begin at the alphabet, they imagine that the Esperanto consonants must be in accordance with the English usage.

  6. You ask me how it was that the idea of creating an international language occurred to me, and what was the history of the Esperanto language from the time of its birth till to-day?

  7. Spanish, yet, thanks to Esperanto, he was able to translate the sentences in that language in our February number.

  8. The mechanism of language stood before me as though it were upon the palm of my hand, and, inspired by love and hope, I began to work systematically.

  9. For the convenience of Esperantists, all works dealing with the language can now be obtained by writing to the Librarian, P.

  10. I do not remember when, but, at all events, it was very early, I arrived at the consciousness that an international language was possible only if it were neutral and belonged to none of the now-existing nationalities.

  11. A Language of lifelong utility; yet easily learned in odd moments.

  12. One is convinced at every step that the diversity of language is the only, or at least the chief, cause which separates the human family and divides it into inimical sections.

  13. Its language was exceedingly pleasant to hear, and produced great brokenness of heart.

  14. Your testimony is often derived from observers ignorant of the language of the people whom they talk about, or who are themselves prejudiced by one or other theory or bias.

  15. David Clement Scott, has published 'A Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language in British Central Africa.

  16. But when they came to understand their language better, they found quite the reverse to be true .

  17. An unknown language overheard is a mere sound.

  18. His knowledge of their language and customs was minute, and his book, privately printed, contains much interesting matter.

  19. Garcilasso explodes the Spanish etymology of the name, in the language of Cuzco, which he 'sucked in with his mother's milk.

  20. Strong in these analogies, the psychologist will venture to accept a case of language not learned, but reproduced in delirious memory, on no evidence at all.

  21. It tends to make their language more picturesque: it depictures images better.

  22. But in truth our language is, and from the first dawn of poetry ever has been, particularly rich in compositions distinguished by this excellence.

  23. But, surely, it would be strange language to say, that I construct my heart!

  24. Klopstock dwelt much on the superior power which the German language possessed of concentrating meaning.

  25. The psychology of language is still unsettled, and whether a man can think without the use of words is often doubted.

  26. The Eye and the Ear "Literary" language is commonly distinguished from the language of ordinary life by certain heightenings or suppressions.

  27. Word: a sound, or combination of sounds, used in any language as the sign of a conception, or of a conception together with its grammatical relations.

  28. An American collector of Japanese prints recognizes in these specimens of Oriental craftsmanship that mastery of line and composition which are a part of the universal language of the graphic arts.

  29. Every additional language that one learns, every new sojourn in a foreign country, enriches one's own capacity for sharing the lyric mood.

  30. The novelist or essayist, let us say, fashions his language more or less in accordance with his own mood, with his immediate aim in writing, with the capacity of his expected readers.

  31. This is precisely what one feels when one listens to a poem recited in a language of which one happens to be ignorant.

  32. Mitra points out (Indian Problems, London, 1908), this language is the more significant as the Bande Mataram in the novel was the hymn by singing which the Sannyasis gained strength when attacking the British forces.

  33. The cardinal, as it seems, had imposed a penance upon a bishop whom he had found diverting himself at chess; and in his letter to the pope he repeats the language he had held to the erring prelate, viz.

  34. The practical identity of Chaucer's language with that of Gower shows that both merely used the best English of their day with the care and slightly conservative tendency which befitted poets.

  35. It has long been agreed that Chatterton was solely responsible for the Rowley Poems, but the language and style are analysed in confirmation of this view by Prof.

  36. Lowes on "The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women" in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol.

  37. Among other points he argues, apparently with justice, that chaturanga was evidently the root of shatranj, the latter word being a mere exotic in the language of the inhabitants of Persia.

  38. His language in approval of the resistance of the colonists was unusually bold, and perhaps no one but himself could have employed it with impunity at a time when the freedom of debate was only imperfectly conceded.

  39. Their language was allied to that of the Maoris of New Zealand, but they differed somewhat from them in physique, and they were probably a cross between an immigrating Polynesian group and a lower indigenous Melanesian stock.

  40. About 1803 he began the study of Sanskrit, though he possessed neither grammar nor dictionary, and by great labour he obtained sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to compose in it verses said to possess great elegance.

  41. Their language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian family.

  42. As I spoke their language like my mother-tongue, I got pretty well out of the affair, and everybody seemed charmed with me.

  43. To borrow his own expressive language in the private letter to his brother cited in a preceding note, "You can form no idea of the perplexity of my situation.

  44. This language was understood figuratively, however,--the roasting of an ox and a banquet being intended.

  45. Every thing must be performed with great deliberation, and the Indian language is composed of such lengthened compounds, that the labor of delivering and translating a speech is exceedingly tedious.

  46. FN-3] In this account of the sortie, the author has adopted almost the very language of the brave Colonel himself, in his Narrative.

  47. The author has endeavoured to arrive at the true import, preserving as much of the language as possible.

  48. We are very glad that your language and Col.

  49. We are very glad that your language and Colonel Johnson's so well agrees.

  50. In the language of the Six Nations, Wyoming was called Sgahontowano, or "The Large Flats.

  51. Living as it were among the Indians, bespoke their language as well as he did his own.

  52. We will appoint white men, who speak your language and love your nations, to see you safe down to Albany, and to provide provisions for you on the way.

  53. When such language could be used from the very steps of the throne, it may be imagined how great was the intellectual ferment in which everyone who thought and read at all was necessarily involved.

  54. This familiarity with the German language was very well as a foundation, but Prince Albert considered that there was much to build on it.

  55. It was a language Paul remembered well, for his Queen had often talked to him caressingly in her own strange tongue.

  56. All the thoughts that had raced through her upstairs in the sleepless hours returned to her, but she had to struggle to find language in which to tell them.

  57. She found a quick, tender language springing from her understanding.

  58. Lloyd's The Esperanto Language Practically Considered and Described, we have already received many most appreciative criticisms; and one devoted fellow worker has even composed verses, which we print below.

  59. Even the creator of the language himself has given his sanction to these latter words, not as law-giver, but merely as the Esperantist most competent to make the selection.

  60. In a poet of alien race and language and religion I found a greater sympathy than I have experienced with any other.

  61. I studied Latin because I believed that I should read the Latin authors, and I suppose I got as much of the language as most school-boys of my age, but I never read any Latin author but Cornelius Nepos.

  62. But there is a rudeness in the construction and language of all of these stories which sometimes blinds the reader to the really delicate insight into human feeling displayed in them.

  63. He dwells too much upon what he imagines to be the language and conversation of the ancients and too little on those material facts in their life which can be proved or plausibly imagined from the remains of it which we have gathered.

  64. He may be perfectly incapable of creating an ideal character, while yet he can make its language more compact, can concentrate its action.

  65. After this has been done, to employ the language of the Kansas and Nebraska act, they "shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.

  66. It is embodied in strong and express language in our own Declaration of Independence.

  67. Let us ardently hope, in the language of the treaty itself, that "there shall henceforward be perpetual peace and friendship between the United States of America and His Majesty the Tycoon of Japan and his successors.

  68. To employ the language of our present minister to France, who has rendered good service on this occasion.

  69. It is altogether rounded upon inference; not from any language contained in the instrument itself, but from the sovereign character of the several States by which it was ratified.

  70. Is it a new language that I hold to yourself?

  71. Modern Greek, as it is at present printed, is not the natural spoken language of the peasants.

  72. This is what Chesterfield calls "the porter-like language of Homer's heroes.

  73. It is a queer domain of fashion, to be sure, peopled by the strangest aborigines, who talk and are talked about in a language most interesting to the philologist.

  74. He told a plain tale, in the language suited to a plain tale, with abundance of wit and gaiety, as in the reflections of his Chicot, as in all his dialogues.

  75. At present boys are introduced to the language of the Muses by pedantically written grammars, full of the queerest and most arid metaphysical and philological verbiage.

  76. HOMER AND THE STUDY OF GREEK The Greek language is being ousted from education, here, in France, and in America.

  77. The mental constitution is strengthened and braced by the labour, even if the language is forgotten in later life.

  78. How Dumas came to divine Homer, as it were, through a language he knew not, who shall say?

  79. The language is extraordinarily artful, as in the mad lord's words, "I have felt the hilt dirl on his breast-bone.

  80. It is the language of truth; and ears like yours cannot be deaf to the sounds.

  81. Still the look was one rather of regret than of reproach; nor did a single syllable of the tongue confirm the meaning language of the eye.

  82. Our adventurer listened greedily to these words, though he little liked the strong language of admiration with which the Rover was pleased to clothe his generous sentiment.

  83. On the other hand, the old mariner arose, and appeared to examine the ship, like one who perfectly comprehended the technical language of the Admiral's widow.

  84. This is bold language to sound in the ears of a blood-seeking, remorseless pirate!

  85. One of her terms was particularly incorrect, as I happened to know from my own familiarity with the language of sailors.

  86. On the contrary, his language and pronunciation were those of a gentleman, and his air was quite suited to his utterance.

  87. The whole of the facts were laid before the Rover in the direct, unvarnished language of truth.

  88. They only knew the nation as tenors or modellers or language masters.

  89. It is not at all improbable, too, that he owed something of bis success to that unconquerable objection people feel at confessing that they do not understand a foreign language,--the more when that language is such a cognate one as French.

  90. Damer papers they would be called, in the language of the public journals,--and thus bring on a smashing debate.

  91. I declare I think it is this fearful language has done it all.

  92. But it is quite impossible to translate into another language the fierce energy of this speech.

  93. His acquaintance with the French language had enabled him to be of considerable service to Prince Charles, when he wished to converse about matters of importance without taking the other people about him into his confidence.

  94. Duvillard let her drink on, but she guessed his thoughts, like she guessed those of the others, and simply smiled while concocting impossible stories and descanting fantastically in the language of the gutter.

  95. Such language is unworthy of a priest, it is the chimerical dream of one who is ignorant of the conditions in which the papacy has hitherto lived and in which it must still live if it does not desire to disappear.

  96. And at last his language became so free that Orlando, with a glance towards the priest, gently interposed: "Luigi!

  97. When the Germans tried to force the German language on them, they were reduced to despair.

  98. The lad soon became interested in the study of the Delaware Indian language among the natives of that tribe living along the Susquehanna, and at once showed great proficiency.

  99. All this was told me in the intervals of shaking hands, and offering and receiving condolences in the most uncouth, guttural language I had ever heard.

  100. They were the roughest-looking set of men I ever beheld, and their language was as uncouth as their persons.

  101. These they seemed to regard with a devotional feeling; but I was not sufficiently acquainted with their language to gather from them whether they understood the doctrine the symbol was designed to convey.

  102. His knowledge of the language was somewhat limited, and he burlesqued it by adding an s to almost every word, and giving out each phrase with a jerk.

  103. She regarded the chief and his mother with love and reverence, and had so completely learned their language and customs as almost to have forgotten her own.

  104. Wish-tay-yun and I were soon good friends, my husband interpreting to me the Chippewa language in which he spoke.

  105. It is not in the power of language to describe the indignation that pervaded the little community when this discovery was made known.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; cant; chatter; comment; composition; conversation; dialect; diction; dictionary; discourse; elocution; expression; formulation; gab; grammar; idiom; jargon; language; lexicon; lingo; locution; palaver; parlance; parole; phrase; phraseology; phrasing; prattle; print; prose; rapping; rhetoric; speaking; speech; style; talk; talking; terminology; tongue; usage; verbiage; vernacular; vocabulary; talking; terminology; tongue; usage; verbiage; vernacular; vocabulary; wording