How to Use fluent in a Sentence

fluent

adjective
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Macron was talking about free speech, according to Siblani's wife, who is fluent in French.
    — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Gomez, who is not fluent in Spanish, speaks and sings the language as her character Jessi del Monte in the film.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Braden wrote the scripts, and his mother, who is fluent in French, assisted with the translations.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Students need to be fluent at English, math and writing.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • She was also born and raised in New York City and speaks fluent yo me defiendo Spanish.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Candidates need to be between 27 and 37 years old and fluent in English.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 May 2024

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