How to Use fluent in a Sentence

fluent

adjective
  • The Red Birds were quick on the page and fluent with the language.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 26 Feb. 2020
  • At least two of them will be fluent in English and Yup'ik.
    — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2020
  • At least two of them will be fluent in English and Yup’ik.
    — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • At least two of them will be fluent in English and Yup’ik.
    — Time, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The last person fluent in the Wiyot language died in the 1960s.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Most of all, Young Love is fluent in the archive of Black sitcoms.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But his client, who grew up on the West Coast, speaks fluent English.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • Queiroz is fluent in the language of healing in which the sport likes to speak about itself.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Zhang, who had only been in the U.S. for two months and was not fluent in English, obliged.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2019
  • Before that, asking more fluent friends to help get the phrasing and flow right was the norm.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some of us are fluent in Kreyòl, and some of us only know slips of our mother tongue.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Do the background research and ask the questions to be deep and fluent in your topic.
    — Jim Vandehei, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Making sure that young guys are fluent with the playbook.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2020
  • People are more well versed and more fluent in the language of mental health.
    — Matt Villano, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • My great-grandma Lily, the one that I’m named after, was a fluent speaker.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The best are fluent in the differing languages of music and dance.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Nick Castellanos, who is fluent in Spanish, saw it and stopped him.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 10 June 2021
  • Jalue is now fluent in English and Tibetan and often gets A’s in class.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Many people of East Asian descent may be fluent in this code.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • She was born in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1968 and is fluent in Thai and Indonesian.
    — Nick Givas, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The one exception is the prison-cell scene in which Sarya whips out fluent French, which becomes a key plot point.
    — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • At the book’s beginning, Mr. Chisholm has a little French but is not quite fluent.
    — Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Those most fluent in facial language tend to be born deaf.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Lupe lived in Mexico long enough to become fluent in Spanish and adopt the name Lupe, short for the name Guadalupe.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • Many doctors are fluent in English and are trained abroad.
    — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Many of them are not fluent in Spanish and instead speak Mayan languages known as K'iche' and Mam.
    — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2018
  • Many of them are not fluent in Spanish and instead speak Mayan languages known as K'iche' and Mam.
    — Anita Snow, azcentral, 26 June 2018
  • Many of them are not fluent in Spanish and instead speak Mayan languages known as K'iche' and Mam.
    — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2018
  • Many of them are not fluent in Spanish and instead speak Mayan languages known as K’iche’ and Mam.
    — Anita Snow, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
  • Today, there are five fluent speakers of the Chochenyo language.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 11 May 2025

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