How to Use English in a Sentence

English

1 of 2 adjective

• Nine years ago, the club was in the fifth tier of English soccer.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 May 2023
• Man just find the worst English woman's prison there is and stick her in it!
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Third graders are assessed only on English language arts and math.
  — Carmen Nesbitt, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• United was outfought and outplayed by a team in the fourth tier of English soccer.
  — Graham Ruthven, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Think of it as the English cottage garden’s edgier, more eclectic cousin.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2023
• Although Wrexham is in Wales, the team plays in the English soccer league.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
• The sleeper hit of the menu is their excellent sourdough English muffin.
  — Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
• Nine of the 11 starters played overseas, five of them in the English Premier League.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• None of the four complainants in the case can be named as they are afforded lifelong anonymity under English law.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 26 July 2023
• None are in prison anymore, and few English-language news reports even exist about the murder today.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
• Her aunt who was her English teacher has a son, Jesse, who lost his hearing as a baby to meningitis.
  — Rachel O'Neal, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2023
• The pair overlap briefly with their predecessors, two hard-partying English girls who seemed to have a great time.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• DeJesus raised alarm on the rolling back of instructions for English learners.
  — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected on a screen above the stage.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
• Alcohol is the salve and stultification of the small English town.
  — Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
• Because the construction is a natural and graceful part of our English idiom.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• College wasn't even on Mancilla's radar until his seventh-grade English teacher pulled him out of class and asked about his plans.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• The move was announced while Gerrard was in the middle of the English Premier League season.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• Miquel, age 43, makes short YouTube videos that sound out English words, much like many other online instructors.
  — Joe Pinsker, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• Bong made history becoming the first non-English-speaking filmmaker to win best picture.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
• The video begins with Jones standing on the feet of the English singer-songwriter, who can then be heard singing along to the music as his daughter twirls around the room.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 June 2023
• The English female rock band the Last Dinner Party is also a rising act worth checking out.
  — Peter Larsen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• More than a billion people understand and speak the English language in some form, and 70 percent of them are not native speakers.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Price, who has a Jamaican father and English mother, is determined to show the Black body engaged in the mundane.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
• This sprawling English estate might not be Buckingham Palace, but it was built by the same guy who worked on the royal residence.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• The concept was hard to explain — there was a word for it in Italian but Gherardo couldn’t come up with the English translation.
  — Devin Friedman, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2023
• In a heartbreak letter to the English capital city Taylor Swift had called home, the singer says so long to London.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• Harbour married the English singer-songwriter, now 38, the same year in September.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• The lighthouse is a white tower, eighty-nine feet tall, whose east windows face across the North Atlantic toward the English coast, some three thousand miles away.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Gismondi, 40, is an even bushier-bearded English teacher from the Class of '00.
  — Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2023

English

2 of 2 noun

• I asked the doctor to give me my diagnosis in English, not medical jargon.
• The English traditionally have afternoon tea.
• The show has even helped people around the world learn English.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Hunt looked over and saw English flat on the field, not moving.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
• Hinton, who is tall, slim, and English, poked the spot with his stick.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• English once said of the movie were a black, high school player was helped by a white family.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
• Then there was a song, and a teacher recited a prayer in English.
  — Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• The forms and chat help are available in English and Spanish.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• Akil had a stammer, and English was his third or fourth language.
  — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
• Red-coated soldiers, stiff and solemn, called out orders in English.
  — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
• English had served as Roycemore’s head of school since 2022.
  — Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
• My children speak English very well and speak English with each other.
  — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• Many are Spanish speakers learning English for the first time.
  — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
• In English, that means the Cavs are getting good, open looks and simply clanking them off the rim.
  — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 24 May 2026
• English also played bogey-free for his 64, finishing with a birdie to a front pin over the bunker.
  — ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
• The idea is for the players to integrate, and part of that is learning a passable English.
  — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 5 June 2026
• The Hunts and English worked to turn a tragic story into something good.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
• Just don’t expect a lot of English–the hotel team were smiley and kind, but spoke a minimal amount.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
• It was conducted in English and Spanish, both by phone and online.
  — Claire Wang, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
• Neither Rochdale nor York have ever graced the top flight of English football.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Dreamed up by local farmer Mark English, the idea has become the course’s signature.
  — Belinda Luksic, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
• And the city only offered it in two languages, English and Spanish.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
• English said Blair was calmer and more athletic, but just as competitive.
  — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 May 2026
• Grimsby, who are fourth in the fourth tier of English football, spent a combined £3m ($4m) on their squad.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Even from a language standpoint, his first language is Spanish, not English.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
• For more than 30 years, this wasn’t just a story of English’s life being changed in a random moment.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
• Schools that struggled to make the grade on math and English swiftly cut back on other subjects to compensate.
  — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
• So does the Netherlands, where more than 90% of citizens speak English.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
• Actresses and baseball players alike learned English from watching the show.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• The service Most, but not all, staff here speak English, but no one is more than a few seconds away from someone who can help you.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026