fluency

How To Use fluency In A Sentence

• Often each also has his own style of handwriting, announced gender, cultural and racial background, artistic talents, foreign language fluency, and IQ.
• We conclude that the quantitative and qualitative evidence supports the contention that increases in fluency are attributable mainly to increases in the degree of proceduralization of knowledge.
• Both sides had been playing as though still searching for their fluency, even simply for a meaning to their deliberations.
• The primary focus of our teacher's reading instruction was phonics and reading fluency.
• That monotony of form, those commonplace cadenzas, those endless bravura passages introduced at haphazard irrespective of the dramatic situation, that recurrent _crescendo_ that Rossini brought into vogue, are now an integral part of every composition; those vocal fireworks result in a sort of babbling, chattering, vaporous mucic, of which the sole merit depends on the greater or less fluency of the singer and his rapidity of vocalization. Gambara
• Thus far this has been every bit as entertaining as I'd feared - no quality, no fluency.
• The joy of new experiences, the difficulty of learning Spanish (which I'll never accomplish with any degree of fluency), discovering a totally new culture, and dealing with the problems of living here all make my brain ache, but also keep it active. Page 2
• We'd found that disfluency led people to think harder about things. BBC News - Home
• Mark Liberman of Language Log has a very suggestive entry about the disfluency of the Wolof elite, as described in Judith Irvine's "Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change" (Language in Society, 7: 37-64 (1978)), at least as he remembers it:...upwardly mobile men among the Wolof nobility cultivate inarticulateness as a sign of status. Languagehat.com: ON NOT SPEAKING WELL.
• In Britain, because of the historical importance of parliament, we place a higher value on verbal fluency in our national leaders.