How to Use lingual in a Sentence

lingual

adjective
  • An evergreen tale gets spruced up in this bi-lingual love story.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The charm is in the menu, packed with all sorts of Mexican delights, and the warm, multi-lingual-enough service.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • That will include everything from billboards to multi-lingual spots on social media.
    — oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The third big, multi-lingual traffic jam was when Sabalenka came to talk after losing to Shnaider.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • Multi-lingual services are also available.
    — Kristie Keleshian, CBS News, 6 June 2026
  • In a beautiful bit of lingual mirroring, Daniel Craig was her love interest.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Pablo Sandoval was a popular pick, as the bi-lingual infielder is a popular player with both teammates and fans.
    — Kerry Crowley, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The surgery can be necessary for infants when the lingual frenulum, the tissue that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth, is too tight, restricting the tongue's movement.
    — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 15 July 2019
  • Social media has been the sit of lingual transformations, both playful and galvanizing.
    — Kylie Logan, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Social media has been the site of lingual transformations, both playful and galvanizing.
    — Kylie Logan, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The display of lingual lapis lazuli provides one of the intimate moments between human and animal at the Roos and Mates tour.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • One concern, however, is for kids whose lingual or social development is atypical, Learmonth said.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Davies’ gift for caustic witticisms is at its full strength in these scenes, in which Siegfried, for all his own lingual flair, is often overmatched by his paramours for sheer drawing-room-comedy vitriol.
    — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • Maldonado came along after that scandal, plays perhaps the most important communicative position on the club and is multi-lingual.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Cody utilizes imagery, historic documents, multi-lingual erasure poems, and more to force a reckoning with history’s silence.
    — Sydney Williams, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Jazz is almost another character on Netflix's multi-lingual series produced by Chazelle, who directed the first two episodes.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 9 May 2020
  • The 1989 discovery of a Neanderthal hyoid, also known as the lingual bone, led to the suspicion that these species had the ability to speak.
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Multi-lingual babies can also choose from English, Spanish, French, and German music and phrases.
    — Parents, 23 June 2026
  • The movie took $55M worldwide (per figures provided by mk2), a big number for a multi-lingual European drama.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
  • So, as the Spanish lessons continue at Colts headquarters, Brissett is doing his best to be a little more multi-lingual on Sunday.
    — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The multi-lingual Herra is also recruited to help with their women’s programs, a position with more status than Nazir’s, and which requires her to speak to and sometimes be alone with men.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In February 2015, Chauvin tried to restrain a man by putting pressure on his lingual artery, which is below the chin bone, prosecutors wrote.
    — Tami Abdollah, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This character, who embraces life and is open to what love may bring, is played by the bi-lingual Matilda Lutz, who was born to an Italian mother and an American father.
    — Sunhee Grinnell, Vanities, 1 June 2017
  • Skipper said the district is also working to increase programming, including for special education and multi-lingual learners.
    — Louisa Moller, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • OpenAI releases free multi-lingual speech recognition system.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • But there are also lingual tonsils (base of the tongue), tubal (around the opening of the Eustachian tube in the nasopharynx (upper part of cavity behind nose and mouth) and adenoid (high up in throat behind nose).
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • Detecting hate speech seems to be one of Facebook’s biggest challenges, according to the report, since there can be lingual nuances that artificial intelligence can not yet detect.
    — Alyssa Newcomb /, NBC News, 15 May 2018
  • Kerala has also succeeded in distributing multi-lingual messaging, a powerful gesture that recognizes the migrant workers who do not speak the state’s official languages.
    — Ruth Michaelson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The inventors of BrainPort have put this lingual sensitivity to use, developing a device that converts visual stimuli into small electrical bursts on the tongue.
    — Dana Smith, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2014
  • In what3words, La Poste has found a simple solution that instantly provides Côte d'Ivoire with a robust and multi-lingual addressing system.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017

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