On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with English. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as side or arts and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
English in a sentence
Related words
English meaning
- Of or pertaining to England.
- English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
- Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
Synonyms of English
Using English
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to England. | English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England. | Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
- Useful related words include: west germanic, west germanic language, side, arts.
- In the example corpus, english often appears in combinations such as: the english, in english, english and.
Context around English
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 15 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for English
- In this selection, "english" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, british, international, american, midfielder, words and poems stand out and add context to how "english" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all ulster english has more, although old english is the, english language, british english and english literature. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "english" sits close to words such as governor, upon and vehicle, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with english
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All Ulster English has more obvious pronunciation similarities with Scottish English than other Irish English dialects. (16 words)
Although Old English is the direct ancestor of modern English, it is unintelligible to contemporary English speakers. (17 words)
Basic Global English Basic Global English, or BGE, is a concept of global English initiated by German linguist Joachim Grzega. (20 words)
It may also be referred to as "the Queen's (or King's) English", " Public School English", "Posh" or " BBC English" as this was originally the form of English used on radio and television, although a wider variety of accents can be heard these days. (45 words)
Chelsea’s English midfielder Callum Hudson-Odoi (R) and Chelsea’s English head coach Frank Lampard react at the final whistle during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London on January 11, 2020. (41 words)
Manchester City’s English midfielder Phil Foden (R) vies with Chelsea’s English midfielder Ross Barkley (L) during the English FA Community Shield football match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in north London on August 5, 2018. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The corpus has speech data in three English accents (U.S. English, British English, and Indian English), culled from 251 U.S. speakers and synthetic voices generated by Google Cloud Platform’s text-to-speech API.
Apple International English Keyboard International English version of Apple keyboard There are three kinds of Apple Keyboards for English: the United States, the United Kingdom and International English.
English as a lingua franca in foreign language teaching seeAlso English as an additional language (EAL) is usually based on the standards of either American English or British English as well as incorporating foreign terms.
It may also be referred to as "the Queen's (or King's) English", " Public School English", "Posh" or " BBC English" as this was originally the form of English used on radio and television, although a wider variety of accents can be heard these days.
On p. 97: "Because Canadian English and American English are so alike, some scholars have argued that in linguistic terms Canadian English is no more or less than a variety of (Northern) American English.
There are also some other loan words which are fingerspelled, either very short English words or abbreviations of longer English words, e.g. O-N from English 'on', and A-P-T from English 'apartment'.
He said: “At school I quite liked English, and I was actually going to study English at university, but I didn’t want to be an English teacher.
You can get by with English alone in Braga and shouldn’t have a problem finding English-speaking doctors, real estate agents, and lawyers, as well as English-language media.
Chelsea’s English midfielder Callum Hudson-Odoi (R) and Chelsea’s English head coach Frank Lampard react at the final whistle during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London on January 11, 2020.
So I insisted on using Kwasi Kyei Darwkah to make a statement that the first name is not English, the middle name is not English and the last names certainly not English,” he said.
Harris English (+125) over Charles Howell III (Sportbet) — CH3 is currently has the odds to beat English, but despite CH3 being the defending champ, it's hard to ignore English's past few months of form.
Manchester City’s English midfielder Phil Foden (R) vies with Chelsea’s English midfielder Ross Barkley (L) during the English FA Community Shield football match between Chelsea and Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in north London on August 5, 2018.
Adorno translated into English While even German readers can find Adorno's work difficult to understand, an additional problem for English readers is that his German idiom is particularly difficult to translate into English.
All Ulster English has more obvious pronunciation similarities with Scottish English than other Irish English dialects.
Along with some friends, he founded another publishing house, Olisipo, which published in 1921 a further two English poetry volumes: English Poems I–II and English Poems III by Fernando Pessoa.
Although Old English is the direct ancestor of modern English, it is unintelligible to contemporary English speakers.
Another difference between New Zealand and Australian English is the length of the vowel in words such as "dog", and "job" which are longer than in Australian English which shares the short and staccato pronunciation shared with British English.
Australian English began to diverge from British English after the founding of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.
Basic Global English Basic Global English, or BGE, is a concept of global English initiated by German linguist Joachim Grzega.
Bleste be Middle English the.svg man Middle English that.svg spares thes stones, And cvrst be he Middle English that.svg moves my bones.
Phrases with english
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with english
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the english 47×
- in english 38×
- english and 35×
- english language 33×
- of english 18×
- english is 17×
- and english 15×
- an english 14×
- english as 13×
- british english 12×