sign language
Example Sentences
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“Growing up, I never learned sign language, and that barrier prevented me from really connecting with my dad,” Osmond said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Think sign language for people who can hear.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
A BSL interpreter helps translate sign language into spoken language and vice versa.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
People who are born profoundly deaf, meaning they have little or no hearing, often rely on sign language rather than speech to communicate.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
The girl couldn’t talk, couldn’t communicate at all except in the inadequate sign language she had invented—a language even her mother only half-understood.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
