Sample sentences for LINGUISTIC

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Definition

related to language

She fears the country will split along linguistic lines.

linguistic = language

Indonesia has hundreds of ethnic and linguistic groups.

linguistic = language

Sweden's Finns are Sweden's largest linguistic minority.

linguistic = language

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguistic = related to language

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguistic = related to language

It was only with aspirin and something Fay concocted for me that I was able to finish my linguistic analysis of Urdu verb forms and send the paper to the International Linguistics Bulletin.
Daniel Keyes -- Flowers for Algernon — Novel

linguistic = related to language

"What a great linguistic puzzle," Art said.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Then Enki must have had some kind of linguistic power that goes beyond our concept of normal.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
The guards were actually pleasant, barely glancing at their minimal luggage, more curious about their linguistic ability than their possessions.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
And I found it more or less appropriate that the French word for shark, requin, has its linguistic roots in the word requiem.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Nelson spent part of an afternoon demonstrating to me that fine linguistic difference while we scraped chicken manure from the nest boxes.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
Sophie was surprised she had not spotted the linguistic ties immediately.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Herein lies a linguistic riddle—whether the prefix "a-" in their language does indeed mean "without."
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
"Why pay rent?" the linguistic circular went on to demand.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic; he liked Katherines.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
He believes that coming to a language late can be an advantage, because one brings better credentials, linguistic, cultural, and emotional.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
His linguistic behavior suggests that at some time Quentin Tarantino, the writer-director, was in contact with the Good Book, despite all his Bad Language.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Linguistic alchemy.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Archaeologists and philologists have identified in Homer relics of artifacts and linguistic forms that must date to the Greek Bronze Age of the middle second millennium.
Homer -- The Iliad

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