How to Use fluent in a Sentence

fluent

adjective
  • Most of all, Young Love is fluent in the archive of Black sitcoms.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Before that, asking more fluent friends to help get the phrasing and flow right was the norm.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the book’s beginning, Mr. Chisholm has a little French but is not quite fluent.
    Benjamin Shull, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Curley is the first speaker since 2014 to be fluent in Navajo, and has emphasized the need to learn and speak the language.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • So much so that consumers who once knew nothing about masks now are fluent in the finest points of mask fit, function and style.
    Sayanti Basu, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • And for readers who don't speak fluent Porsche, that means this one is a station wagon.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Simu happens to be fluent in both, and can speak Mandarin Chinese very well.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Being fluent always felt like catching the wind in your hands.
    Joseph Ferguson, ajc, 16 Sep. 2021
  • At the time there were eight or 10 fluent speakers remaining.
    Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Amongst the buzzing crowd of fashion fluent attendees, Louis Vuitton was the look of choice, to no surprise.
    Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 21 May 2022
  • By this point, Manuel was fluent in the politics of Canada’s First Nations.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Munk is now fluent in English, which is the lingua franca of Alchemist.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The reason why this is so difficult is because all of the menus have to be usable and feel fluent with any one of the control methods.
    Grant Stoner, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The airline’s ground staff in Helsinki are fluent in the region’s native languages.
    Patricia Cohen Juho Kuva, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Candidates need to be between 27 and 37 years old and fluent in English.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024
  • Ever the overeager researcher, Wallace became as fluent in the tax code as any agent.
    Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The Prada ball is a curio to people more fluent in sport than Italian fashion.
    Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • The process to find actors who were fluent in Navajo was a big undertaking and an event in itself.
    Arlyssa Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2022
  • Most staff members are fluent in both Mandarin and English.
    Grace Xue, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • Bout, fluent in at least six languages, has been in custody since his 2008 arrest in Thailand.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • One of the few servers who spoke fluent English, Wang eventually learned of his rights in the workplace and decided to fight for them.
    NBC News, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If the couple was fluent in each other’s native language, what was their language of love?
    Eric V. Copage, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The school’s academic foundation is built on the IB program, and the rigorous bilingual approach ensures students are fluent in English and French.
    Lysanne Currie, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.
    David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

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