How to Use fluency in a Sentence

fluency

noun
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  • He plays the piano with speed and fluency.
  • She speaks with great fluency.
  • Students must demonstrate fluency in a foreign language to earn a degree.
  • Despite the fluency of the date, the goodbye was a bit awkward.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The fluency of Hitchens’s prose does have something in common with his speech.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Her fluency in the culture still tends to surprise some.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Instead, the midfield was overrun and, as a result, there was no fluency to the play.
    — SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Roberson could speak the language of the law and the language of the street with equal fluency, said Friedman, a friend of 50 years who's now a U.S. district judge.
    — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2020
  • By the end of the week, Tammet proved his fluency in an interview on an Icelandic news show.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2022
  • That loss caused us to lose some of our fluency and possession in midfield.
    — SI.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • His speech had a natural fluency, laced with a wicked wit.
    — Bruce McCall, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020
  • In fact, the shapes their bodies make are to the decorous postures of adults as children’s halting speech is to adult fluency.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Charles was for decades the Prince of Wales and learned to speak the language — with enthusiasm if without fluency.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • But early on in life, Gore lost her fluency in Spanish.
    — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Seems even the teacher is overwhelmed by their fluency.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Warnock speaks with a rousing fluency that befits his day job.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2021
  • But the Olympics are different and require fluency in the nuances of judo, the ins-and-outs of archery or the vagaries of modern pentathlon.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Her fluency in both moods and the effortlessness of her reach make this a page-turner of lasting force.
    — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • This method allows the technology to process large blocks of language quickly and to test the fluency of the outcome.
    — Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • But one night recently, Rhett brought home a poem to read to me as his fluency homework.
    — Maggie Smith, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • While deeply silly, on display is the type of fluency in movies and show business that can only come from loving it so much.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Pope met with many of the attendees one-one-one as well, speaking with them in Italian, regardless of their fluency.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
  • According to Bird, most workers have no choice but to add A.I. fluency to their repertoire.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 27 May 2023
  • According to Bird, most workers have no choice but to add A.I. fluency to their repertoire.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 8 May 2024
  • The planning of your trip would be easy-peasy due to the natural language fluency of ChatGPT.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • There are now more than 100 speakers of varying fluency.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Most people end up crimping their fluency to get those AI apps to do what is requested.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The late actor and comedian’s gift was his fluency in dad jokes and dirty humor alike.
    — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2022
  • But still, Brazil conceded only one goal in the six games of the tournament and, in its good moments, played with a fluency no other side matched.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 7 July 2019
  • Modern chatbots are trained on large collections of text—trillions of words—that give them the illusion of language fluency.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2024

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