How to Use Danish in a Sentence

Danish

1 of 2 adjective
  • The Danish foreign office then confirmed the report.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The report added that all three men's activities were closely monitored by the Danish government.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Greenland is a Danish territory.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The refreshing cobalt blue colorway would blend into any Danish modern home, while the shelving itself provides ample display space for your favorite coffee table books.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In June, the family of six came out in full force to support the annual Royal Run, an exercise festival held across five Danish cities.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • One Shoulder One-piece Bathing Swimsuit In Copenhagen, saunas play a big part in Danish culture, so keeping a bathing suit handy is a smart move.
    — Leila Najafi, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Users of the Danish pharma giant’s weight loss drug Wegovy showed a bigger reduction in the risk of heart attack compared with people on Eli Lilly’s Tirzepatide.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Danish wind farm developer Orsted says the Revolution Wind project is about 80% complete, with 45 out of its 65 turbines already installed.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the film stars Eddie Redmayne as a transgender artist who was one of the early recipients of gender reassignment surgery.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Danish rival Novo Nordisk submitted its first weight loss pill for US approval in May, putting pressure on Lilly, which said Tuesday that its medication outperformed Novo’s.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That, van Leeuwen suggests, might give Trump additional leverage with the Danish government in negotiating mineral rights or even political control of Greenland and its 57,000 people.
    — Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen told the ceremony’s audience and media that Denmark and California are leaders in green energy, innovation and sustainability.
    — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Oscar-winning Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen lands in Venice this weekend with dark comedy The Last Viking, reuniting him with actors Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas who have appeared in all of his films.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Danish clean energy company Ørsted, one of the project’s developers, received an order late Friday from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to immediately halt work on a wind project off the coast of Rhode Island that was 80% complete.
    — Gordon Ebanks, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Granaas replaced Leonard Owusu in the 78th minute of Fredrikstad’s 2-0 Europa League third qualifying round second leg defeat by Danish side FC Midtjylland (their 5-1 elimination on aggregate dropped them down into the Conference League play-offs).
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The 25-year-old son of The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus and Danish model Helena Christensen was taken into custody in Manhattan after an alleged altercation with a 33-year-old woman on Saturday, a representative for the NYPD told Entertainment Weekly.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025

Danish

2 of 2 noun
  • Last week, the Danish Royal House shared the official plans along with three new portraits.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 2023-08-14
  • Turning the edges reveals the cinnamon-sugar swirl inside the Danish-like dough.
    — Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 2023-04-06
  • Both treasures contain a mixture of Danish, German and Arab coins.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2023-04-22
  • For instance, the Danish Code from 1683 punished people by cutting off their tongue, head or hands.
    — Armin Langer, The Conversation, 2023-08-29
  • Alsalloum started school, studied Danish and English, and joined the soccer team.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 2023-04-06
  • Here, Vogue reflects on Queen Margrethe’s vibrant, playful eye for clothes—and why, for the Danish, her reign will never go out of style.
    — Anders Christian Madsen, Vogue, 2024-01-01
  • Come rain, shine, or Danish nor’easter: Copenhagen Fashion Week is back—and with the varying weather conditions is a mixed bag of street style.
    — Claire Stern, ELLE, 2023-08-09
  • Jakob Hoyer, head of communications for the Danish Football Assn.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2023-10-06
  • This eye-popping amount of money has pushed up the value of the Danish Krone, causing the country’s central bank to keep interest rates below the rest of Europe.
    — Byalexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 2023-08-21
  • The film opens in the desolate Arctic, where Victor has chased his creation, and flashes back as Frankenstein relates his life’s story to a Danish sea captain whose ship is stuck in the ice.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • According to Triasun, the best time to visit is in September during the Danish Days celebrations.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Those found guilty of mistreating an object with major religious significance could be fined or sentenced to up to two years in prison, according to a draft of a bill published by the Danish Justice Ministry.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 2023-08-25
  • This idea was heightened by the presentation by the Royal Danish Academy Master’s program runway show participants.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 2023-08-13
  • Rather than demonstrating Danish hypocrisy, the protester managed to show how a secular society committed to both free speech and tolerance can handle offensive ideas, and also how these values serve as the antithesis to violence.
    — Jacob McHangama, Time, 2023-08-09
  • More than 200 dead have been brought to various hospitals, said a Herat health department official who identified himself as Dr. Danish, adding that most of them were women and children.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 2023-10-09
  • The property, which served as Denmark’s stock exchange until the 1970s, now houses the Danish Chamber of Commerce and had been under renovation.
    — Christian Wienberg, Fortune Europe, 2024-04-16
  • Developed in 2012 by a Danish pharma company, Novo Nordisk, Ozempic can be taken in two different ways — most commonly as an injection under the skin of your thigh, upper arm, or abdomen and orally in a pill form.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 2023-09-21
  • Unfortunately, from The Danish Girl all the way to last year’s disastrous Emilia Pérez, cisgender audiences continue to crave stories about the drama of disclosure over the texture of our actual lived experience.
    — Samantha Allen, Them., 22 Aug. 2025
  • Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries—more commonly known as DALI—has announced the launch of the KUPID.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • At the gay film festival at the Vista Theater, [the American entries] were mostly old Tennessee Williams adaptations with gay themes, alongside Danish, Swedish, Dutch and Spanish titles.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The logos of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, maker of the blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss treatments Ozempic and Wegovy is seen outside theri building as the company presents the annual report at Novo Nordisk in Bagsvaerd, Denmark, on February 5, 2025.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The production received support from multiple European film funds including Romania’s National Cinema Center, France’s CNC, the Danish Film Institute and Bulgaria’s National Film Center.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025

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