How to Use sign language in a Sentence

sign language

noun
  • Will is the first man in nine years to learn sign language for me.
    — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Witschey has trained the deaf dogs to respond to sign language.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Think sign language for people who can hear.
    — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • For a few months, Sapp would use sign language to talk to Dee.
    — Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Then, the rest of the class decided to learn sign language.
    — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The cast was tasked with working sign language into their roles.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2020
  • So now her father is teaching her son sign language once a week on a video chat.
    — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 7 May 2020
  • His mom was shocked when the cast member began to speak with him in sign language.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Kong and Jia are pals, and her knowledge of sign language will come in handy.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Bleu learned sign language with the help of a tutor in roughly three weeks—no easy feat.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 6 June 2022
  • And on the floor was someone with a mic translating the sign language to speech.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Ruben begins to turn things around by working with kids and learning sign language.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Ritter learned sign language for the role (as well as some Spanish).
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • My dreams of bonding with the primates and teaching them sign language--dashed.
    — Whitney Tower, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2014
  • Then came the backlash, from linguists and experts in sign languages.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Right now, only 8% of hearing parents with a deaf child learn sign language.
    — Jennifer "jay" Palumbo, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • There will be a sign language interpreter to assist with the story time.
    — Julie A. Short/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Joining her on stage was a sign language interpreter who also dressed in a white shirt and jeans.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The rental company will offer meet-and-greets in sign language and story time.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
  • What people see of composing—the hand gestures—is like a sign language.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The group took a flat route and offered sign language interpreters and rest stops with medics and supplies.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2020
  • The family did their best to learn sign language and adjust their lives to meet their daughter’s needs.
    — PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • That year the team faced two other schools for the deaf, which meant the opponents also knew sign language.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • There was also the sign language with Kimiko, and the connection.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • She's been deaf for most of her life and had never met a Santa Claus who knew sign language.
    — Kelly Potts, Woman's Day, 18 Dec. 2014
  • Plenty of kids on the team, both Adams and his son said, don’t have families that know sign language.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Watch the moving video of the sign language conversation above.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Niemiller also joked about a restaurant staffer who used sign language to thank him at the end of a drive-through transaction.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 24 July 2019
  • Del Priore was born in Brooklyn to deaf parents who taught sign language.
    — Jerry Carino, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
  • It will be displayed as a unique title in-app and can be identified by its key art with the sign language symbol.
    — Caroline Brew, Variety, 21 Feb. 2024

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