How to Use Lingala in a Sentence

Lingala

noun

• This is the Lingala term for the larvae of palm weevils, a type of beetle that lives in palm trees.
  — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• On set piece plays like this one, the DRC players speak only Lingala.
  — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
• In the press box at halftime, Congolese journos exhort the team in French and Lingala, a Bantu language native to their homeland.
  — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
• Known as Mbinzo, in Kinshasa's dominant language Lingala, the caterpillars are from a species of emperor moth.
  — Emmet Livingstone, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
• In 2020, when digital social activism reached its peak, Lingala noticed that, in a social sense, conservatism then became the unpopular counterculture.
  — Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
• Femininity and maximalism are on Lingala’s trend docket, rooted in sociological observations.
  — Essence, 21 Aug. 2025
• Over an extensive conversation covering trends, political results, and comparisons between Lingala’s Dime Square observations and my own of Silverlake, came many points on how rapidly society and fashion are changing.
  — Essence, 21 Aug. 2025