Use language in a sentence
Sentences ending with language
- It must be written in German, because the receiver understood no other language. [10]
- Mr. William Amory, who knew them both well, has kindly furnished me with some recollections, which I cannot improve by changing his own language. [6]
- That Greek line, which I do not remember having heard mention of as remarkable, has nearly every consonantal and vowel sound in the language. [6]
- We believe that we may promise him as warm a welcome among ourselves as he will receive even in America; that his place will be at once conceded to him among the first historians in our common language. [6]
- It was his way never to lose his temper, tho' he were called by the vilest name in the language. [9]
- I do not understand the flowers of speech, and desire plain language. [10]
- I haven't learned to talk in my new world yet; but I know three words of the language. [11]
- The mob had thrown stones at the upper windows, in order to awaken him, and had insulted him with cursing and offensive language. [4]
- The results of this teaching of religion in modern terms are already becoming apparent, and some persons are already beginning to see that the Creeds express certain elemental truths in frankly archaic language. [9]
- This would simplify the language. [5]
Short sentences using language
- What language did they speak? [5]
- His language was the Doric-Laconian. [10]
- Talk white men's language. [11]
- How beautiful that language is. [5]
- Hebrew Language, study, 48. [6]
- Such language! [5]
- Language, 95-97. [6]
Sentences containing language two or more times
- Song was the language of her heart, and she had learnt by experience that it was a language which even the heathen could both use and understand. [10]
- And you can keep changing it from language to language, until your private theatrical pupils have become glib and at home in the speech of all nations. [5]
- For one instant her arms wrapped him round, and she murmured something in a language he did not understand--the language of the Roumelian country. [11]
- He appears to have his own opinion of a sea voyage, and if it were put into language and the language solidified, it would probably essentially dam the widest river in the world. [5]
- He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant--though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home. [5]
More example sentences with the word language in them
- Seek elsewhere, among your own people, in your own religion and language and position, the Mistress of Rozel. [11]
- I must say your language is unwarranted. [9]
- At first the young man was awed by the presence of the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up to the classic level of the old meteorologist's speech. [11]
- As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
- I still owe you my after-dinner speech, but you must let me off, for I can't speak your language fluently. [10]
- That--in her belief--she wrote the book under the inspiration of the Deity, but furnished the language herself. [5]
- Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions, the people have never understood them as being any more than an indorsement of the compromises of 1850, and a release of our senators from voting for the Wilmot Proviso. [7]
- In natural, simple words, the learned man, skilled in the art of language, represented to the imperial widower how little reason he had to mourn his devout wife. [10]
- Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
- Of his interview with Mr. Carvel I know nothing save that Scipio was requested presently to show him the door, and conclude therefrom that his language was but ill-chosen. [9]
- She drank no wine, but was intoxicated by her own flow of language and so completely engrossed Georg's attention, that he found no time to address a word to the other guests. [10]
- He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
- The plain and wholesome language of Emerson is on the whole more needed now than it was when spoken. [6]
- Quis cus-(On the whole, as this quotation was not entirely new, and, being in a foreign language, might not be familiar to all the boarders, I thought I would not finish it. [6]
- The new scene which would result from this change had been conjured before the Queen's mental vision with marvellous celerity, and she described it in brief, vivid language to the architect. [10]
- Some faculty of which I had never before been conscious had awakened in me, and I needed no interpreter to explain the unspoken language of my celestial attendant. [6]
- She was definite when she claimed both the language and the ideas of the book. [5]
- I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
- Whether primeval man, when he possessed but few arts, and those of the rudest kind, and when his power of language was extremely imperfect, would have deserved to be called man, must depend on the definition which we employ. [1]
- I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
- And what looks, what language he had at command, when he desired to put an end to my jealous complaints! [10]
- I don't remember what I said sething to the effect that he was excited, that his language was extravagant. [9]
- To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. [6]
- How charming they were--in spirit, manner, language, pronunciation, enunciation, grammar, phrasing, matter, carriage, clothes--in every detail that goes to make the real lady and gentleman, and welcome guest. [5]
- He stayed six weeks at Bordeaux to improve himself in the language, and then set out for the Mediterranean. [4]
- We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
- But even if we knew the simplified form for every word in the language, the phonographic alphabet would still beat the Simplified Speller "hands down" in the important matter of economy of labor. [5]
- By travelling eastwards we find that there is certainly a different language of music. [1]
- There wasn't any way to misunderstand the language of that challenge. [5]
- The whole house was, in the common language of the newspaper reports, "a perfect tinder-box," and would probably be a heap of ashes in half an hour. [6]
- At first it was mere blind instinct about which I had no thought, living like other infants the life of impressions without language to connect them in series. [6]
- His second speech was made at Bloomington, in which he commented upon my speech at Chicago and said that I had used language ingeniously contrived to conceal my intentions, or words to that effect. [7]
- Not that Phil was at all pious, nor yet possessed of those abstemious qualities in language and appetite by which good men are known; but he had a gift of civic virtue--important in a wicked world, and of unusual importance in Viking. [11]
- In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. [5]
- Mr. Richard talked very plain language with himself in all these inward colloquies. [6]
- They can calculate very easily with a slip of paper and a pencil, but not the less is their language but half intelligible as they speak and listen. [6]
- I had never used that language myself, but at that moment I was converted. [5]
- She often told us how highly French was valued in the capital, and we must believe that the language possesses an imperishable charm for Germans when we remember that this was the case so shortly after the glorious uprising against the terrible despotism of France. [10]
- Indeed, I picked up much of that language in my intercourse with the inhabitants of Kaskaskia. [9]
- Van Hout, who understood the Castilian language in which they were written, hastily read them. [10]
- And never, even under the highest excitement, was purity of language overlooked. [10]
- She read it twice before the full meaning of it came to her, and after that she could not well mistake it,--the language being so admirable in every way. [9]
- T.] The Parisian travels but little, he knows no language but his own, reads no literature but his own, and consequently he is pretty narrow and pretty self-sufficient. [5]
- Those who had traveled said that he had the manner of a preaching friar--the simple language, so refined and yet so homely and direct, the real, the inspired word, the occasional hastening torrent of words. [4]
- The breeze says to us in its own language, How d' ye do? [6]
- We can't learn to understand much of their language, but the dog, the elephant, etc., learn to understand a very great deal of ours. [5]
- He talked glibly to those folks in all those seven languages and still had a language to spare! [5]
- Then said Kit to this gentleman, 'a pot of beer'--just so--and the gentleman, instead of replying, 'Sir, did you address that language to me? [12]
- It 'gravels' me, to this day, to put my will in the weak shape of a request, instead of launching it in the crisp language of an order. [5]
- They came up to the fire, hoarsely uttering something in a language our soldiers did not understand. [2]
- It causeth me to smile when I read the modifications of my language which have been made in my English editions to fit them for the sensitive English palate. [5]
- I beg leave to offer this in the simple language befitting all sincere exploits of a geographical character. [4]
- She's been used to honest people; he's talked a new language to her--tricks caught in his travels. [11]
- She then returned to her uncle, the old gun, or son of a gun, as the case may be, and he taught her to write and speak Latin, which was the language of literature and polite society at that period. [5]
- In sending him to her brother, it was her intention, for she told him so, that he should only sojourn in Nalbrits long enough to learn the language, and what it was to be a Turk, till time made her master of herself. [4]
- In the brief time in which he had seen her and this other man, Austen's quickened perceptions had detected tacit understanding, community of interest, a habit of thought and manner,--in short, a common language, unknown to him, between the two. [9]
- The newspaper is thus widening the language in use, and vastly increasing the number of words which enter into common talk. [4]
- And then I thought what an inadequate language the English is for compact expression. [4]
- Poetry is commonly thought to be the language of emotion. [6]
- I have always thought it was natural that any celestial message should demand a language of its own, only to be understood by divine illumination. [6]
- And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
- The name of this god was Pua; its body was made of a bird, now eaten by the Hawaiians, and called in their language alae. [5]
- Borrow one of these from another language and religion, and you will find it leaves all its magnetism behind it. [6]
- Beneath her abstractions there was a capacity of loving which might have been inferred from the expression of her features, the light that shone in her eyes, the tones of her voice, all of which were full of the language which belongs to susceptible natures. [6]
- Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
- The more obscure their theories, the more were they overloaded with image and metaphor; all simplicity of statement was lost, and yet the disputants prided themselves on the brilliancy of their language and the wealth of their ideas. [10]
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. [5]
- The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. [4]
- And this is the staple argument of both the Chief Justice and the Senator for doing this obvious violence to the plain, unmistakable language of the Declaration. [7]
- It will be the special aim of the teachers to educate their pupils out of all provincialisms, so that they may be recognized as well-bred English scholars wherever the language is spoken in its purity. [6]
- As he related the scene, stopping and facing us in the trail, his mild, far-in eyes came to the front, and his voice rose with his language to a kind of scream. [4]
- I call it the Patent Universally-Applicable Automatically Adjustable Language Drama. [5]
- With respect to the origin of articulate language, after having read on the one side the highly interesting works of Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood, the Rev. [1]
- His language on the occasion was pointed and confident. [11]
- In this paper the mechanism of the series of nervous derangements to which I have been subject since the fatal shock experienced in my infancy is explained in language not hard to understand. [6]
- His compliment to the local purity of the language is warranted. [5]
- She pointed out the little faults of construction and of language, and then minimized them in comparison with the noble motive and the unity and beauty of the whole. [4]
- This was not the language, but the purport, of the lady's questions. [9]
- The inventor of the language seems to have taken pleasure in complicating it in every way he could think of. [5]
- The inventor of the language probably got what he knew about a conscience from hearsay. [5]
- We, therefore, in the language of the Bible, must "lay the axe to the root of the tree. [7]
- These people spoke the language of Powhatan. [4]
- The devil, in the language of orthodox theology, had led him there. [9]
- I would only the language method--the luxurious, elaborate construction compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. [5]
- Trumbull admits that the language is not a direct provision for submitting it, but it is a provision necessarily implied from another provision. [7]
- The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. [7]
- It comes from the irrepressible throats of my cook and my housemaid, who have more joy in the language of the plantation than you could have in the songs of St. Angelus. [11]
- But besides all the impressions that furnished the stuff of the poem, there has been hard work to get the management of that wonderful instrument I spoke of,---the great organ, language. [6]
- It was in the heart of the English power; its population had been under English dominion so many generations that they were hardly French now, save in language. [5]
- Either Keys or the General is irretrievably in for it; and in the General's very condescending language, I say "Let them settle it between them. [7]
- I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated. [5]
- My acquaintance with the French language is very imperfect, I having never studied it anywhere but in Paris, which is awkward, as B. F. devotes himself to it with the peculiar advantage of an Alsacian teacher. [6]
- If I know the French language as I do, and can talk to you in French as I've done, do you think I don't understand the French people, and what you want and how you feel? [11]
- My reply to the first, containing the best advice I could give, conveyed in courteous language, had brought out the second. [6]
- I'm one of the few men in the West that can talk your language. [11]
- The language of the eyes runs deeper into the personal nature, but it is purely individual, and perishes in the expression. [6]
- Talking seemed like the exercise of a foreign language to her, but her smiling was free and unconstrained, and it belonged to all, without selection. [11]
- It is not the English language nor its body of enduring literature--the noblest monument of our common civilization--that the writer objected to as a standard of our performances. [4]
- The similarity of the emotions as produced in the mourners in these two instances is remarkably evidenced by the singular similarity of thought which they experienced, and the surprising coincidence of language used by them to give it expression. [5]
- I appeal from the disparaging language by which the Professor in the Jefferson School of Philadelphia world dispose of my claims to be listened to. [3]
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