How to Use sign language in a Sentence

sign language

noun

• Will is the first man in nine years to learn sign language for me.
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• For a few months, Sapp would use sign language to talk to Dee.
  — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• The 6-year-old is learning Spanish and sign language, and counts by 5s and 10s.
  — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• And on the floor was someone with a mic translating the sign language to speech.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
• Bleu learned sign language with the help of a tutor in roughly three weeks—no easy feat.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 6 June 2022
• And the idea came to me of having sign language be the missing element that the new husband doesn’t share with the rest of them.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• Plenty of kids on the team, both Adams and his son said, don’t have families that know sign language.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2021
• That year the team faced two other schools for the deaf, which meant the opponents also knew sign language.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Thing quakes, then quickly explains in sign language that it’s there for her own good.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2022
• After the Skype session, I was asked to copy a sign language video that featured Sian’s friend signing one of the scenes.
  — Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 12 Aug. 2021
• His speech, delivered in sign language, was a heart-melter.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• In Maya’s case, the district said the months-long delay was due to a shortage of sign language interpreters.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• For the mother of Mr. Rivera, the man detained for using sign language, just thinking about this weekend’s vote has her on the verge of tears.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
• Richard’s aggrieved mother, the Duchess of York (Monique Holt), uses sign language.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• In the 2018 horror film, sign language adds to the suspense and rules of the story because its characters must not speak to stay alive.
  — David Zimmermann, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• Right now, only 8% of hearing parents with a deaf child learn sign language.
  — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• Watch the moving video of the sign language conversation above.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
• Who is doing sign language at the Super Bowl 2023 halftime show?
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• The drama centers on Miriam whose life is a testament to her love of sign language.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• It will be displayed as a unique title in-app and can be identified by its key art with the sign language symbol.
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024
• Plus, today was our first show ever with a sign language interpreter, and I was blown away.
  — Josh Chesler, Spin, 20 Sep. 2023
• When English didn’t work, there was always sign language.
  — Anna Buchmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• Matlin, for example, is known as MM, her initials in sign language.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The district settled and agreed to pay for extra schooling and sign language classes.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 18 Jan. 2023
• Back in July when the movie first appeared in theaters, Robbie showed off her sign language skills on a red carpet for a fan.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023
• Maya Lopez) as a young girl being taunted by an ice cream vendor for speaking in sign language.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• Kashe also knows more than 50 signs in sign language — an impressive feat.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 26 May 2021
• The main sawmill, built in 1908, was for decades one of the few sources of income on the reservation, and its workers devised a kind of sign language to communicate over the din.
  — Cara Buckley Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• The class is part of a three-session program McAllister and Brinton teach about sign language and music.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• During her acceptance speech, Fletcher used sign language to thank her parents, both of whom were deaf and worked with the hard-of-hearing.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024