private language
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Royce Heng, owner of Duke Language School, a private language institute in Bangkok, said around 180 Chinese inquire each month about visa information and courses.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
It’s such a small, intimate, unmistakable gesture, the sort of signal that couples develop as part of their private language.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2020
There is a way in which Bloom was always speaking his own private language, and gradually publicizing that privacy on his own odd terms.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019
“For me, dance-making was about that private language I was creating with my dancers, and at some point, you perform that. But with Katherine, now there was always a public quotient to my private space.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2019
Espanol: the language that seemed to me a private language.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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