languages

Example Sentences

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Step off the 7 train, and languages quickly shift from Nepali and Bengali to Spanish and Tagalog as you walk between blocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Voices in four languages that weren’t needed, because the language we spoke was the game: the give-and-go, the look that means I’m here, I’ve got you.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

He was also inspired to study languages at the University of Leeds as Adam had been his partner in French classes and had helped him through his lessons.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

On a recent morning, hundreds of sun-dappled wishes shimmied in the tree leaves in at least 10 languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, Chinese, Persian, French and Turkish among them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The thirty teams selected to compete for the Stavros Prize represented nineteen countries on six continents and spoke twelve different languages.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti