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View synonyms for fluently

fluently

[ floo-uhnt-lee ]

adverb

  1. smoothly, relatively rapidly, and easily, with few or no errors:

    Herbert Hoover moved his family to China before becoming president, and he and his wife learned to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently.

    I can type as fluently as Rubenstein played the piano.

  2. with easy and graceful motion or with smooth, natural transitions:

    Her small yet strong body moved fluently through the woods as if part of it.

    Moving fluently from personal to public history, his poetry has been acclaimed for both its candor and its authority.



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  • non·flu·ent·ly adverb
  • o·ver·flu·ent·ly adverb
  • un·flu·ent·ly adverb

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Example Sentences

Suddenly I felt I could speak the same language, albeit not very fluently.

Samir is 8 now, fluent in English and flourishing at school.

You can be “fluent in the food” of your heritage, even if you’re not fluent in the language.

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Make sure to become fluent in the new API changes if you use the API for any application or software programs that you have built.

I know vocabulary but am not fluent and cannot understand fully.

Williamson “talks fluently and modestly about his art,” Barkham wrote.

The helmsman, who did not speak English or Italian fluently, responded, “Hard to Starboard?”

When one man asked Carmona to speak Spanish, he answered fluently, although his grammar was a little rusty.

He painted her, as fluently as Sargent or Boldini might have, then wrapped the painting, and tied up the package.

Over the past four decades, Lynch has invented a voice that speaks fluently in tongues, a visual language all his own.

Strive to speak or sing fluently without breaking the quality of tone used.

He was wonderfully quick in overtaking his fellow-pupils, and at six could read French and German fluently.

He spoke her own tongue fluently, and never in Constantinople had she met a gentleman more at his ease in courtly company.

He talked fluently with the humor peculiar to his countrymen, and had succeeded in interesting his listener.

Our mother tongue hardly knew itself, it ran so fluently and sounded so magniloquently and lied so naturally.

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