How to Use fluency in a Sentence

fluency

noun

• He plays the piano with speed and fluency.
• She speaks with great fluency.
• Students must demonstrate fluency in a foreign language to earn a degree.
• Despite the fluency of the date, the goodbye was a bit awkward.
  — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
• The fluency of Hitchens’s prose does have something in common with his speech.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Her fluency in the culture still tends to surprise some.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
• Instead, the midfield was overrun and, as a result, there was no fluency to the play.
  — SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Roberson could speak the language of the law and the language of the street with equal fluency, said Friedman, a friend of 50 years who's now a U.S. district judge.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2020
• By the end of the week, Tammet proved his fluency in an interview on an Icelandic news show.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
• His speech had a natural fluency, laced with a wicked wit.
  — Bruce McCall, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
• In fact, the shapes their bodies make are to the decorous postures of adults as children’s halting speech is to adult fluency.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• Charles was for decades the Prince of Wales and learned to speak the language — with enthusiasm if without fluency.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• But early on in life, Gore lost her fluency in Spanish.
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• Seems even the teacher is overwhelmed by their fluency.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• Warnock speaks with a rousing fluency that befits his day job.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2021
• But the Olympics are different and require fluency in the nuances of judo, the ins-and-outs of archery or the vagaries of modern pentathlon.
  — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• This method allows the technology to process large blocks of language quickly and to test the fluency of the outcome.
  — Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• But one night recently, Rhett brought home a poem to read to me as his fluency homework.
  — Maggie Smith, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• While deeply silly, on display is the type of fluency in movies and show business that can only come from loving it so much.
  — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Pope met with many of the attendees one-one-one as well, speaking with them in Italian, regardless of their fluency.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• According to Bird, most workers have no choice but to add A.I. fluency to their repertoire.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 8 May 2024
• According to Bird, most workers have no choice but to add A.I. fluency to their repertoire.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• There are now more than 100 speakers of varying fluency.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2020
• Most people end up crimping their fluency to get those AI apps to do what is requested.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• The late actor and comedian’s gift was his fluency in dad jokes and dirty humor alike.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
• But still, Brazil conceded only one goal in the six games of the tournament and, in its good moments, played with a fluency no other side matched.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 7 July 2019
• The next generation of chemists emerging from grad schools across the world brings a level of data fluency that would have been unimaginable in the 2000s.
  — Jeannette Garcia, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
• His mother, the astronomer, gave him a basic fluency in the language of the universe and stoked his curiosity about the cosmos.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• In other words, women who ate eggs more than five times per week had a half point less decline in category fluency over four years than those who never consumed eggs.
  — Christina Manian, Health, 11 Sep. 2024
• Iwuji anchors the production with his classical stature and fluency.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024