How to Use fluent in a Sentence

fluent

adjective

• Most of all, Young Love is fluent in the archive of Black sitcoms.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• Queiroz is fluent in the language of healing in which the sport likes to speak about itself.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• Before that, asking more fluent friends to help get the phrasing and flow right was the norm.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• People are more well versed and more fluent in the language of mental health.
  — Matt Villano, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• My great-grandma Lily, the one that I’m named after, was a fluent speaker.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
• Nick Castellanos, who is fluent in Spanish, saw it and stopped him.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 10 June 2021
• Jalue is now fluent in English and Tibetan and often gets A’s in class.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• At the book’s beginning, Mr. Chisholm has a little French but is not quite fluent.
  — Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• Those most fluent in facial language tend to be born deaf.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Lupe lived in Mexico long enough to become fluent in Spanish and adopt the name Lupe, short for the name Guadalupe.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• Curley is the first speaker since 2014 to be fluent in Navajo, and has emphasized the need to learn and speak the language.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• So much so that consumers who once knew nothing about masks now are fluent in the finest points of mask fit, function and style.
  — Sayanti Basu, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• And for readers who don't speak fluent Porsche, that means this one is a station wagon.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• Simu happens to be fluent in both, and can speak Mandarin Chinese very well.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
• Being fluent always felt like catching the wind in your hands.
  — Joseph Ferguson, ajc, 16 Sep. 2021
• At the time there were eight or 10 fluent speakers remaining.
  — Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Amongst the buzzing crowd of fashion fluent attendees, Louis Vuitton was the look of choice, to no surprise.
  — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 21 May 2022
• Braden wrote the scripts, and his mother, who is fluent in French, assisted with the translations.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2020
• By this point, Manuel was fluent in the politics of Canada’s First Nations.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Munk is now fluent in English, which is the lingua franca of Alchemist.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• The reason why this is so difficult is because all of the menus have to be usable and feel fluent with any one of the control methods.
  — Grant Stoner, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• Students need to be fluent at English, math and writing.
  — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
• The airline’s ground staff in Helsinki are fluent in the region’s native languages.
  — Patricia Cohen Juho Kuva, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Candidates need to be between 27 and 37 years old and fluent in English.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024
• Chen, though, said her eighth-grade son, Jiayuan, is fluent in English and walked her through the process shortly after she was laid off.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
• Ever the overeager researcher, Wallace became as fluent in the tax code as any agent.
  — Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• Even today, many fluent speakers can understand and speak the language but may not be able to read it.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
• The Prada ball is a curio to people more fluent in sport than Italian fashion.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
• Thanks in part to his fluent English, Favino has also long been the rare Italian actor to appear in Hollywood movies, though the roles were small.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
• Ani is Uzbek American, and though her Russian is serviceable at best, her body language is more than fluent enough for them both.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024