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
  • It will be performed by two different casts, in English and Mandarin, ending on the anniversary of the Monterey Park massacre.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2023

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