How to Use monolingual in a Sentence

monolingual

adjective
  • He regrets being monolingual and wishes he were bilingual.
  • Often, the United States is seen as monolingual, and that’s not the case at all.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But as officials see it, a monolingual China is more likely to be a strong and unified one.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Best of all for monolingual seniors, English is widely spoken.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Researchers have also found that bilingual children are less impulsive than their monolingual peers.
    — Ida Lieszkovszky, cleveland.com, 5 Nov. 2017
  • Khan said all her experience in teaching has been in classrooms with monolingual and bilingual students.
    — Alvaro Montano, Houston Chronicle, 3 Oct. 2020
  • And the bilingual patients were diagnosed almost four and half years later than the monolingual patients.
    — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Any early expectations of a monolingual internet fizzled out well over a decade ago.
    — Nick Ustinov, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Adrian of Coconut Grove has a trilingual mother and a monolingual father.
    — Amanda Rosa may 7, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
  • The brains of bilingual and monolingual patients matched the severity of the disease from a symptomatic perspective.
    — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
  • That leaves much of the monolingual Anglosphere at a major disadvantage.
    — Rosemary Salomone, TIME, 7 Apr. 2024
  • López spent her last 30 minutes before polls closed helping one voter, a monolingual Spanish speaker, find her polling place.
    — Jackie Fielder, Teen Vogue, 11 Jan. 2019
  • That's why the group wanted to provide an alternative for monolingual Spanish speakers.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 4 July 2020
  • Meanwhile, the Concilio has become a one-stop virtual shop for monolingual families.
    — Holly Haber, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But monolingual Tsimane' speakers used these words interchangeably for bluish and greenish colors.
    — Elise Cutts, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Ramos, who is a bilingual teacher, works closely with fellow second grade teacher Stephanie Smith, a monolingual teacher.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Only native English-speakers are left out, since a bilingual book cannot be reproduced for monolingual societies.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • American public schoolteachers are, on the whole, substantially more likely to be white and monolingual than are public school students.
    — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Current ideas about the bilingual brain suggest that both languages are always accessible, even when the bilingual person is speaking with a monolingual person.
    — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2021
  • His landlords had flouted city building rules, resulting in unsafe living conditions for Yu and his neighbors – many of whom are monolingual and low income.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • In response to violence, police have increased foot patrols, launched a community liaison unit to help victims and a monolingual anonymous tip line.
    — Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The idea of a single, native language took hold in linguistics in the mid-20th century, a uniquely monolingual time in human history.
    — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • Many are seniors, monolingual immigrants or families verging on homelessness.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 3 May 2020
  • Every year’s delay means a new class of kindergartners misses out on bilingual education, starting off their elementary school careers on a monolingual track.
    — Tara García Mathewson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • The bilingual social service workers’ monolingual counterparts did not receive the equity increase.
    — Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of monolingual speakers have wonderful experiences at bilingual productions.
    — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Overwhelmingly, said Howe, his students are monolingual, with very little experience with other cultures.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The fact that researchers can discern bilingualism at an early age indicates that the brains of monolingual and bilingual babies are subject to unique and different patterns of neuronal imprinting.
    — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
  • In a study of over 200 bilingual and monolingual patients with Alzheimer’s, the bilingual patients reported symptom onset just over five years later than the monolingual patients.
    — Jennifer Sala, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The variables stand for aspects of the social situation; c12 and c32, for instance, are the likelihood that bilingual speakers will become monolingual.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2012

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