How to Use Urdu in a Sentence

Urdu

noun
  • The Urdu language is not so wordy, because the words already have so much meaning.
    — Peter Helman, SPIN, 30 May 2024
  • On the track, the former One Direction singer joins the trio on vocals in Urdu.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • While most of her songs are in Urdu, Aftab offered neither summaries nor subtitles.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • They were filmed on busy streets or inside living rooms, and their narrators spoke in English, Urdu or other languages.
    — Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Children called out to their parents over the sound of the waves in Arabic, Urdu, English and Russian.
    — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The latest adaptation starring Aly will be in the original Urdu language.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The sole witness to the altercation was the car’s driver, who testified at the trial through an Urdu language translator.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
  • But per People, when on the stand speaking through an Urdu translator, Sarwar does not repeat that assessment.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The group also owned newspapers and magazines in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In court Monday, Naveed Sarwar, speaking through an Urdu interpreter, made no such colorful comments.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Its six pieces unfold as immersive meditations, with the artists drawing from wells of jazz, Urdu poetry, and spirituality.
    — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • On top of the door knockers, there were 100 policy volunteers alone; the campaign launched voter-education outreach in languages like Urdu and Bangla.
    — Mark Chiusano, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Stylistically, the works included references to hip-hop, the Beach Boys, Urdu ghazals and psychedelic Cuban blues.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The initial burst of productions will be in the Hindustani (combining Hindi and Urdu) language that is understood across the subcontinent.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The project, which merges folk, experimental music, and Hindu and Urdu poetry, is dense, mythological, and emotionally fraught.
    — Vrinda Jagota, SPIN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Greens courted the constituency’s ethnic-minority voters, even publishing pre-election material in Urdu and Bangla.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • India is Hindustani music, Urdu poetry, Hindi poetry, Bengali and so many other languages, and this void is going to remain forever for all of us.
    — Rolling Stone India, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Although Urdu and Hindi are remarkably similar, their differences take on outsized religious and national significance.
    — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Five decades later, Ismaily has become one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 June 2023

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