How to Use polyglot in a Sentence

polyglot

1 of 2 noun
  • This future was also foreign — or, more to the point, polyglot.
    — Piotr Orlov, Vulture, 19 May 2022
  • Thaer was an Iraqi lawyer and polyglot who spoke five languages and knew everyone.
    — Phillip Carter, Slate Magazine, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The apex of the language gambit seems to be those amazing polyglots that know a dozen or dozens of languages.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • All that influx has made the city a decidedly polyglot place.
    — Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Why is the galanthi’s human form a teenage polyglot named Myrtle?
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
  • Frankie Light is what’s known on social media as a YouTube polyglot.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Burma, once lauded for its fine schools and polyglot cosmopolitanism, sank into penury.
    — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Padnos, a cultured polyglot, had packed his middle-aged head with poetry.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The benefits of being a polyglot (as a fiction writer).
    — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • The benefits of being a polyglot (as a fiction writer).
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • For all their globe-trotting and polyglot panache, the financiers were no less insular than Tajik matrons.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • Figure out how to communicate with these stubborn polyglots, and then check the solution here.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Like so much else in Louisiana, andouille reflects a polyglot blend of culture.
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • This peripatetic life perhaps accounts for the polyglot nature of his artistic career.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • Truffaut’s polyglot art, seen in the Kino discs, puts all this year’s Oscar nominees to shame.
    — Armond White, National Review, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Tanjawi—or Tangerines—are sociable polyglots who speak in a meze of languages.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The subprefecture of some remote French region may not be the dream of a polished polyglot envoy.
    — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
  • This Japanese-Irish polyglot found global fame by speaking dozens of languages.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The pop-culture polyglot known as Cher snuck quietly into Chicago this past weekend.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • Here were folks with names nobody knows demonstrating a polyglot American ideal that’s felt all too endangered these last few years.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Among their polyglot ranks are search-and-rescue specialists, doctors, canine teams and structural engineers.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • While some athletes are destined to embody their names, Stanton’s name — polyglot, lyrical and lengthy — may reveal something about him, too.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • And in Europe, most people speak more than one language, while Americans are not known for being polyglots for a reason.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2025
  • But Buehler is a rare power-pitching polyglot who features six pitches, including three versions of fastballs.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The text Wujing's man sent was a sentence fragment — a grammar faux pas that an exacting polyglot like Dembe would never make.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Vorontsova is a polyglot, speaking English, German, French and Dutch.
    — Amiah Taylor, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • From one village to the next residents speak different languages, some of the almost 850 heard across the polyglot paradise.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2021
  • Not as great, in Howard’s final judgment, as his friend Wilson, whose polyglot sense of literary history had a global range.
    — Michael Gorra, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The art-rock polyglot has become known in recent years for seething noise-punk (currently in the group Editrix) as well as harmoniously aslant bedroom pop recordings.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • My polyglot brother Chris, who lives in Russia, recently decided to learn Portuguese.
    — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Aug. 2020

polyglot

2 of 2 adjective
  • What those songs really turned out to be were the purest displays of her polyglot approach.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Rocko got his start in Chicago, and his team is a polyglot band of specialists.
    — James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Matthias Pintscher, in the pit, found the connecting threads in Neuwirth’s polyglot score.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Salazar’s heavy hand did not prevent a brisk business in books, newspapers, and magazines among the polyglot population of the city.
    — Time, 3 Jan. 2020
  • The music’s polyglot effervescence seems to bubble up from every corner of the orchestra.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • In the other, an experienced, polyglot diplomat who has served as ambassador to both Turkey and Iraq gave a picture of chaos and calamity.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Washington’s subtle, dynamic and flexible short stories crack open a vibrant, polyglot side of Houston about which few outsiders are aware.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Café Alaska was not so much a place of refreshment as a carousel of human comedies spun around the noisy grinding of coffee beans and furnished with a rack of polyglot newspapers on the far wall.
    — Norman Lebrecht, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Even Kabul, which struggles daily to keep the Taliban at bay, was in the 16th century a polyglot place that beguiled a young Babur.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • In Sanchez’s hands, pastiche is not only a reflection of our polyglot image empire but also a way of exposing the mechanisms by which that empire functions.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • Karachi, a huge, polyglot trading city built up from waves of refugees, is an uncomfortable appendage to the rural, backward Sindhi-speaking province of Sindh.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • For years Kirkuk’s heterogeneous population has largely left Iraq’s identity wars at the city gates and continued their polyglot ways.
    — The Economist, 15 Sep. 2017
  • For Vargas Llosa, London had long been a model of how polyglot pluralism, democracy and free markets should work together.
    — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Coffee culture & seafood in Trieste The twisty-turny history of this polyglot port is evident in the diversity of its culinary landscape.
    — Wendy Ramunno, USA TODAY, 24 July 2019
  • The setting is an international school in Finland, and the opera is interracial, polyglot, and multistylistic.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The brand most closely associated with the polyglot designer has released a new podcast featuring one of Lagerfeld’s final interviews.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2019
  • The choice is ultimately not between an Anglophone Europe and a truly polyglot Europe but between wishful thinking and realism.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Consider the Philadelphia 76ers, whose polyglot roster includes players from seven countries.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, 59, a polyglot gourmet cook, has been a steadfast Merkel loyalist, taking on taken some of the toughest jobs for the chancellor.
    — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Hannibal led that army, a polyglot assemblage of African and Iberian peoples, to three successive victories over numerically superior Roman forces.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • Support for the ideals of diversity and tolerance on the one hand and fears of tribalism and social fragmentation on the other collide on almost every page, beginning in the chaotic, polyglot trading outpost that was New Amsterdam.
    — Kay Hymowitz, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2016
  • Bomberger’s book leaves one with the uneasy feeling that the First World War encouraged the rise of an American musical chauvinism, one that restricted the polyglot makeup of the nation’s culture at the turn of the last century.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
  • With Legrand’s death earlier this year at the age of 86, Tana decided to put together a program focusing on the songwriter’s standards, featuring the lustrous and appropriately polyglot vocalist Jackie Ryan.
    — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • Non-professional Cardona, a performer with natural dignity and an ability to project concern, does fine work as Jose, and filmmaker McKay expertly conveys the sense of a polyglot neighborhood where multi-culturalism is lived, not theorized about.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 14 June 2018

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