How to Use lingua franca in a Sentence

lingua franca

noun

• English is used as a lingua franca among many airline pilots.
• The point was to be made on film, the lingua franca of wartime propaganda.
  — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
• Both of your parents are artists, and art-making was the lingua franca of your household.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
• Workday is the lingua franca of skills for the global workforce.
  — Pete Schlampp, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
• In a room crackling with languages, culture was the lingua franca.
  — Francesco Lagnese, Town & Country, 23 Oct. 2020
• And the word nyam, to eat, is thought to come from Wolof, a lingua franca in West Africa.
  — Simon Romero Alejandro Cegarra, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Nihilism is now the lingua franca of the internet.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
• Lawyers should adapt their language to the lingua franca of business and society.
  — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• More than just cute pictures, these digital icons are a lingua franca for the digital age.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 16 Feb. 2021
• This standard would act as a lingua franca to connect clouds and identity data.
  — Gerry Gebel, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• Before social media became the lingua franca of the watch world, there were forums.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2024
• By contrast, Malone and Wallen just seem to be drawing on their own lingua franca.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 June 2024
• Munk is now fluent in English, which is the lingua franca of Alchemist.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Code is the lingua franca of AI agents—software programmed to solve problems on their own.
  — Clint Boulton, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
• But this sort of talk is a lingua franca for the sensitive teens and young adults who populate wholesome romances.
  — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• Its story lines and even its vernacular have become a sort of pop-culture lingua franca.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• That’s because, for better of worse, English has become the world’s lingua franca.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2019
• Thanks to this new law, the only lingua franca in Catalonia will be Catalan.
  — Itxu Díaz, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• But family ties and the allure of a city where Spanglish is the lingua franca has nonetheless dawn many.
  — Christine Armario, Washington Post, 11 July 2022
• But the narrative also lingers long on the future of the current lingua franca of our age, English.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2010
• English is the lingua franca here but most of those living in the official camp walls and in the overspill areas are Afghan.
  — 1843, 12 Mar. 2020
• German was the lingua franca of science at the time, the language in which much of the world's most important research was published.
  — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2026
• Just look at TikTok, where storytelling has become a lingua franca.
  — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Charles gave a speech in pidgin English (the lingua franca here in 🇸🇧) to great applause at the football stadium.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Nov. 2019
• Even better, Goldstein embraces the lingua franca of the lab, and the reader learns a thing or three about epigenetics along the way.
  — Susan Kaplan Carlton, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
• Passive aggression was the lingua franca of the Womxxxn offices.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023
• Even in Ghana, where the lingua franca is English, knowing how to use smartphones and apps can be a challenge for newcomers.
  — Francis Kokutse, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• Make your way to Nagu, a picturesque village where Swedish is still the lingua franca, then take a late-afternoon boat back to Turku.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• On the internet, the lingua franca of millennials and Gen Z is brevity.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 19 Aug. 2020
• And the ways that curiosity may just be an antidote to the cynicism and despair that are too often the lingua franca of the internet.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026