Sentence examples for an imperfect command from inspiring English sources

Other soldiers sought to make contact with the Iraqis, an awkward process because the Americans have few translators and often struggle to communicate with Iraqis with an imperfect command of English.

Each child speaks in the present tense, implying life being recorded as it unfolds, but even a superintelligent 6-year-old (and I'm not convinced that Sol is one) has an imperfect command of vocabulary and syntax — which is why authors from Henry James ("What Maisie Knew") to Alison Lurie ("Only Children") have filtered childish observations through third-person limited voices.

More than half the student body has imperfect command of English, said the official, who asked not to be identified because the university had not authorized him to speak about the matter.

His descriptions of their behavior and manner of dress were astonishingly accurate, and in my own travels I would often hear some impossibly colorful locution that I had first encountered in "Tristes Tropiques" and attributed to what I thought must be his imperfect command of Portuguese.

"Buck" is an imperfect documentary.

That is an imperfect solution.

History is an imperfect guide.

He's an imperfect solution.

Rahm Emanuel is an imperfect contender.

It is an imperfect system.

"It is an imperfect description".