How to Use monolingual in a Sentence

monolingual

adjective

• He regrets being monolingual and wishes he were bilingual.
• Often, the United States is seen as monolingual, and that’s not the case at all.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• But as officials see it, a monolingual China is more likely to be a strong and unified one.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Meanwhile, the other teachers are white and monolingual.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• And the bilingual patients were diagnosed almost four and half years later than the monolingual patients.
  — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• The brains of bilingual and monolingual patients matched the severity of the disease from a symptomatic perspective.
  — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• How can monolingual adults such as myself learn a second language (on their own time, from their own home and ideally with little to no money spent)?
  — NBC News, 10 May 2018
• López spent her last 30 minutes before polls closed helping one voter, a monolingual Spanish speaker, find her polling place.
  — Jackie Fielder, Teen Vogue, 11 Jan. 2019
• Best of all for monolingual seniors, English is widely spoken.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
• Ramos, who is a bilingual teacher, works closely with fellow second grade teacher Stephanie Smith, a monolingual teacher.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2021
• Khan said all her experience in teaching has been in classrooms with monolingual and bilingual students.
  — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 3 Oct. 2020
• In Searle’s thought experiment, a monolingual English speaker sits alone in a cell.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2016
• That leaves much of the monolingual Anglosphere at a major disadvantage.
  — Rosemary Salomone, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
• That's why the group wanted to provide an alternative for monolingual Spanish speakers.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 4 July 2020
• Researchers have also found that bilingual children are less impulsive than their monolingual peers.
  — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 5 Nov. 2017
• In a study of over 200 bilingual and monolingual patients with Alzheimer’s, the bilingual patients reported symptom onset just over five years later than the monolingual patients.
  — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
• The variables stand for aspects of the social situation; c12 and c32, for instance, are the likelihood that bilingual speakers will become monolingual.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2012
• Any early expectations of a monolingual internet fizzled out well over a decade ago.
  — Nick Ustinov, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, the Concilio has become a one-stop virtual shop for monolingual families.
  — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2021
• The polling company did not offer the questions in Spanish, saying the monolingual Spanish-speaking electorate is estimated to be very small for the June primary.
  — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022
• His landlords had flouted city building rules, resulting in unsafe living conditions for Yu and his neighbors – many of whom are monolingual and low income.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Current ideas about the bilingual brain suggest that both languages are always accessible, even when the bilingual person is speaking with a monolingual person.
  — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2021
• American public schoolteachers are, on the whole, substantially more likely to be white and monolingual than are public school students.
  — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Only native English-speakers are left out, since a bilingual book cannot be reproduced for monolingual societies.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• The fact that researchers can discern bilingualism at an early age indicates that the brains of monolingual and bilingual babies are subject to unique and different patterns of neuronal imprinting.
  — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
• In response to violence, police have increased foot patrols, launched a community liaison unit to help victims and a monolingual anonymous tip line.
  — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
• Valhalla shines a light on the linguistic reality of 9th-century Britain, which is often portrayed as a monolingual island in popular culture—but this couldn’t be further from the truth.
  — Amy Briscoe, Wired, 21 Apr. 2021
• Many street vendors are undocumented, monolingual businesspeople who might not be familiar with their 1st Amendment rights in the United States, Jimenez said.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
• And the saga continues: A new Northwestern University study has found that bilingual and monolingual people listening to the same person speaking can hear two completely different sounds.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• Every year’s delay means a new class of kindergartners misses out on bilingual education, starting off their elementary school careers on a monolingual track.
  — Tara García Mathewson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023

Last Updated: 31 Jul 2024