How do you use the word "english" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "english" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "english": My mom doesn't speak English very well. It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

English Meaning

/ˈɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounSpinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in pool, billiards or bowling; spin, sidespin.

adjOf or pertaining to England.

Sentence Examples

My mom doesn't speak English very well.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

English is a compulsory subject at this level.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The professor assigned a paper on the history of ____ literature from the medieval period.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the ____ language history.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English Englisch, English, Inglis, from Old English Englisċ (“of the Angles; English”), from Engle (“the Angles”), a Germanic tribe + -isċ; equivalent to Engle + -ish. Doublet of Anglish. Compare West Frisian Ingelsk, Scots Inglis (older ynglis), Dutch Engels, Danish engelsk, Old French Englesche (whence French anglais), German englisch, Spanish inglés, all ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow”) (compare Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu, “narrow”), अंहस् (áṃhas, “anxiety, sin”), Latin angustus (“narrow”), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ, “narrow”)). More at Angles (tribe) § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"During the war of 1914–18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired." — 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:

"Honest, honest, English is just a language of confusions." — 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 187:

"The Uſuwrper [...] within a few miles Tanna's Fort, near the Engliſh ſettlement of Fort William." — 1765, John Zephaniah Holwell, Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the …, volume 1, T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, page 150:

"Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines." — 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

"These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter." — 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021:

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