Sentence examples for speaking a strange language from inspiring English sources

Ask most people where politics ­happens and they'd paint a picture of tight-knit tribes making important decisions in wood-panelled rooms, speaking a strange language.

They would never forget this, I thought — big strangers in uniforms, with guns, who had already come once and taken away their father, speaking a strange language, walking through their home, removing things from closets.

"Politicians speak a strange language, and it's for us to decode it.

The armed men spoke a strange language, probably Acholi, but there was no misunderstanding them after the first machete was swung.

She believed that she could see a community of people, a community that spoke a strange language, moving around in Thomas's Field, the land across from her house.

Ms. Radler was fascinated by the steady crashing sound the small, rectangular mah-jongg tiles made as they were tossed across the kitchen table, as the women would talk about family, share stories and speak a strange language of bidding and betting unique to the game's devotees.

Each time she was thrown into emotional turmoil, feeling as if she'd been "drop-kicked into a foreign country" where the occupants spoke a strange language.

The same farmers who had, a couple of generations back, been peasants, speaking a strange national language, working in our factories, speaking against us from hearths and pulpits yet greeting us warmly and with a practiced humility.

People were speaking a foreign language.

She had another son and a husband who spoke in a strange language, "In-glishhh".

He had a look of thickset normality yet, left alone, spoke a strange dislocated language ("ee musten trial focus") that seemed like a mix of James Joyce and Stanley Unwin.