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

They also believe sign language should be taught in schools.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

Terry Murray, from Rugby, is among a group of NHS patients to have been left feeling frustrated or vulnerable at a city hospital because of a lack of sign language interpreters.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 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