Sentence examples for knows only a few from inspiring English sources

Strangers sometimes come up to him and start right in speaking Spanish, of which he knows only a few words.

She knows only a few words of the language, including hello and thank you, and that the capital is Tbilisi.

Brown, you see, knows only a few words in Italian, including the ones for shrimp and tuna.

Zé's songs sound like they were written by someone who knows only a few of the rules but wants to get in the game right away.

A Chinese delegation seeking natural-gas drilling rights from an Arab prince arrives speaking fluent Arabic, in contrast to Matt Damon's American energy analyst, who knows only a few pleasantries.

As Robert Chandler and Nathan Wilkinson describe: A reader who knows only a few of the stories may well imagine the Kolyma Tales to be simply a factual account of Shalamov's experiences.

Newly married and utterly clueless, she knew only a few words of French.

"When he started he knew only a few words, like 'a' and 'the,"' Mr. Green said.

At the time he knew only a few basic guitar chords.

But believe it or not, I know only a few people in my neighborhood.

I hadn't been to Slovenia before, and knew only a few things about the country.