LANGUAGE in a Sentence

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For LANGUAGE, below is one of 387 sentences:
The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.

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 Meanings and Examples of LANGUAGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
language
 n.  a body of words
 n.  the system of communication used by a particular country
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Certainly the language he used in his delirium was no less grammatical than that of the Tarleton twins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  His talk of shadow shows and hazy outlines conveyed no meaning to her but his last words were in language she could understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
3  Her voice became less choked as she went into detailed description of her monster guest in a language which only he could understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
5  The words beat on Gerty's brain like the sound of a language which has seemed familiar at a distance, but on approaching is found to be unintelligible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
7  Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
8  Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference; that is, so long as both parties speak one language, as is the case with Americans and English.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
9  Antonia seemed to like it; she held her little sister by the hand and chattered away in that language which seemed to me spoken so much more rapidly than mine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
10  She said they came from a part of Russia where the language was not very different from Bohemian, and if I wanted to go to their place, she could talk to them for me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
11  He spoke and wrote his own language so seldom that it came to him awkwardly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
12  The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
13  The other stood beside him, a hand on his shoulder, and was comforting him in a language I had not heard for a long while.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  The little children, who could not speak English, murmured comments to each other in their rich old language.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
15  Then had followed a rather heated argument; the two women did not appear to understand each other or to be talking the same language.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
Example Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
16  Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb understand.
17  The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum.
18  Some of the language in the original play has been toned down for the television version.
19  The lack of a common language made it very difficult to intercommunicate.
20  Don't let me wait, wait until the widder then see you I am afraid I've language do word poor.
21  Israel offers automatic citizenship to all Jews who want it, whatever colour they are and whichever language they speak.
22  Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
23  He is accredited with having first introduced this word into the language.
24  At board meetings you have to get used to the formality of the language.
25  English became the official language for business in spite of the fact that the population was largely Chinese.
26  She enjoyed the chance to converse with someone who spoke her language.
27  This choice of language is for example particularly important in communicating to youth and senior citizen markets.
28  He's good at devising language games that you can play with students in class.
29  The college runs specialist language courses.
30  Researchers theorize that there was once a common language for all humanity.