How to Use English in a Sentence

English

1 of 2 adjective

• Nine years ago, the club was in the fifth tier of English soccer.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 May 2023
• Nine of the 11 starters played overseas, five of them in the English Premier League.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Man just find the worst English woman's prison there is and stick her in it!
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Although Wrexham is in Wales, the team plays in the English soccer league.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
• The English baseball team has not trailed often this spring.
  — Mike Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
• The move was announced while Gerrard was in the middle of the English Premier League season.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• The video begins with Jones standing on the feet of the English singer-songwriter, who can then be heard singing along to the music as his daughter twirls around the room.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 June 2023
• In a heartbreak letter to the English capital city Taylor Swift had called home, the singer says so long to London.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• Think of it as the English cottage garden’s edgier, more eclectic cousin.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
• Land was often measured in terms of the area that could be worked in a single day—the origin of the English acre, the German tagwerk, the French journal, and so on.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Third graders are assessed only on English language arts and math.
  — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• None of the four complainants in the case can be named as they are afforded lifelong anonymity under English law.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• The sleeper hit of the menu is their excellent sourdough English muffin.
  — Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
• The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected on a screen above the stage.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
• In this era and well into the 1760s, the value in English silver wares wasn’t in the design, though buyers wanted nice-looking things, but in the metal.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Her aunt who was her English teacher has a son, Jesse, who lost his hearing as a baby to meningitis.
  — Rachel O'Neal, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
• Price, who has a Jamaican father and English mother, is determined to show the Black body engaged in the mundane.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
• The concept was hard to explain — there was a word for it in Italian but Gherardo couldn’t come up with the English translation.
  — Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• The lighthouse is a white tower, eighty-nine feet tall, whose east windows face across the North Atlantic toward the English coast, some three thousand miles away.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• The English female rock band the Last Dinner Party is also a rising act worth checking out.
  — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Going Green Eve and Wilde threw on their green jackets to explore the stunning greenery found in the English countryside.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
• Miquel, age 43, makes short YouTube videos that sound out English words, much like many other online instructors.
  — Joe Pinsker, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• The pair overlap briefly with their predecessors, two hard-partying English girls who seemed to have a great time.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• The same holds for English scores, which were slightly down overall compared with last year, with 41.2% of students meeting standards.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• This sprawling English estate might not be Buckingham Palace, but it was built by the same guy who worked on the royal residence.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• Jinpa, who served as English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985, will talk about the power of compassion to move toward peace and justice.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2023
• Alcohol is the salve and stultification of the small English town.
  — Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
• Gismondi, 40, is an even bushier-bearded English teacher from the Class of '00.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2023
• College wasn't even on Mancilla's radar until his seventh-grade English teacher pulled him out of class and asked about his plans.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• Along her shelves, there’s a mix of books written solely in Spanish, books that give equal space to English and Spanish versions of the same text and books that mix the two languages together.
  — oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023

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English

2 of 2 noun

• I asked the doctor to give me my diagnosis in English, not medical jargon.
• The English traditionally have afternoon tea.
• The show has even helped people around the world learn English.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The book will hit shelves on Sept. 17 in both English and Spanish.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• Hinton, who is tall, slim, and English, poked the spot with his stick.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The forms and chat help are available in English and Spanish.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Scott, 48, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used, stood near a panting English Lab.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
• At first, this update will only be available in the US and scan for results just in English.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• Speaking in English, Hamas militants asked the adults for their IDs.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2023
• The 2-year-old was discovered a short way off the trail, sleeping on the ground with her head atop Hartley, the family’s English Springer.
  — Macie Goldfarb, CNN, 24 Sep. 2023
• In the clip, Benito squares up against his own clone, trading insults in both English and Spanish.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
• Modern English is back with its first album in seven years.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 13 Sep. 2023
• The Senator, who sings in both English and Spanish, has performed in a variety of venues.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Many still come to walk the coastal promenade, dip in the sea, eat ice cream, and soak up the kitsch of an English seaside town: rock candy, joke postcards, silly hats.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• One in 4 was best served in a language other than English; about 63% were racial or ethnic minorities.
  — Devi Shastri The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
• Along with the four different modes of play, babies will love the 100 melodies and phrases, which come in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and German.
  — Christine Luff, Parents, 22 Apr. 2024
• Since then, the now three-year-old English Labrador has accompanied her everywhere — press tours, coffee runs, even the White House.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Books in English and Spanish can also be purchased online at uwsd.org/raa.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• My poppa came to the United States from a village in Russia at age two in 1909, his father a tailor who barely spoke English.
  — Bob Brody, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
• Each shape and color is labeled in English and Braille, and the toy’s compact size allows for easy portability.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
• Even from a language standpoint, his first language is Spanish, not English.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• The enforcement around noon on the first day of the ban was limited to paper signs in English, Mandarin, and Spanish posted throughout.
  — The Brooklyn Bridge, Curbed, 3 Jan. 2024
• Beatriz and the pianist converse briefly in stilted English, neither’s first choice of language.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The Parisians spoke excellent English but knew almost no Russian.
  — Paul Tough, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• In English literature and folklore, a black dog was a demonic hellhound that served as an omen of death.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• Actresses and baseball players alike learned English from watching the show.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• The proportion of students in third, fourth and sixth grade meeting English standards fell by more than five percentage points across the region during the last four years.
  — Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
• Because these mountains draw an international crowd, group lessons are often taught in English — and can be had for just $71 a day.
  — Stratton Lawrence, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• Students must be 18 by the end of the Epic program, and must have a high school diploma or its equivalent and the ability to communicate in English to enroll.
  — The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2024
• Alex is globally certified as bilingual in the Spanish and English languages.
  — The Courier-Journal, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024