How to Use untranslated in a Sentence

untranslated

adjective
  • Though all lyrics are untranslated, the essence is easily understood and deeply felt.
    — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There’s quite a lot of dialogue in Polish, nearly all of it untranslated.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Most of these references go untranslated.
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Gemütlichkeit is a somewhat untranslated German word that means the warm, friendly coziness of beer.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The documents had remained untranslated because so few people could read Old Dutch.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • And there are subtitles for those who don’t understand Spanish; the dialogue in the book is untranslated.
    — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2021
  • This is a love story, after all, and one with a keen grasp of the mournful, curious glances between its two leads — of how much goes untranslated between them, and how much is conveyed.
    — Sheri Linden, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Today, those who can read cuneiform are few and far between, and the vast majority of cuneiform texts remain untranslated.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
  • In limited moments, the actors speak in untranslated Zulu, and something new and potent is released into the room.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 June 2024
  • Audiences who already know the names, places, and songs will have a bighead start over newcomers; there are English subtitles, but a great deal goes untranslated.
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • There is plenty of untranslated Spanish, and Lore is clearly the most successful and assertive character.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
  • Too seldom is the collective good even an afterthought, E Pluribus Unum a motto untranslated and ignored.
    — Rabbi Dan Levin, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The only things readers find more aggravating than untranslated foreign passages are foreign phrases that contain mistakes.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The final node, April 1917, still untranslated, encompasses two more volumes.
    — Gary Saul Morson, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
  • For years, these numbers have remained untranslated in the online archives of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
    — Victoria Breeze and Nathan Moore, CNN, 29 June 2017
  • Though all 13 of his novels have now been released in English, there is still plenty of untranslated material among his countless plays, novellas, stories and memoirs.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Characters speak untranslated Spanish and, in The Passenger, a bit of German.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Even Arabic texts embedded within art objects go mostly untranslated, despite the integral nature of their content and graphic design.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 4 June 2018
  • The sprinkling of untranslated Chinese characters and Québécois French is a smart touch, adding to the over-all sense of miscommunication.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Meanwhile, readers unfamiliar with the history of Kuwait and its meld of Arab traditions will be trying to untangle the many untranslated words and phrases that the characters use.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • This quartet of novels, three of them previously untranslated, are a classic of Spanish postwar literature often compared to the works of Proust and Joyce.
    — The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1980 miniseries, the Japanese dialogue went untranslated.
    — Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Horrible subtitles are also a familiar problem for fans of foreign language films and anime — in fact, some fandoms crowdsource amateur subtitles for untranslated or badly translated shows.
    — Jeva Lange, The Week, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The prose — saturated with details of Filipino culture and untranslated snippets of Tagalog, Ilocano and Pangasinan — might be overwhelming in a wider-ranging novel.
    — Amy Gentry, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The untranslated regions also contribute to control of viral replication and messenger RNA synthesis and translation.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • This pioneering anthology changed the direction of Yiddish studies, bringing to light previously untranslated short fiction and memoirs by eighteen Yiddish women writers.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Fragments of dialogue spoken in Tagalog, Ilocano or Pangasinan are woven untranslated into the prose, creating authentic sensations of an immigrant’s life.
    — Anita Felicelli, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018

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