Sentence examples for was less fluent from inspiring English sources

"I could say that somehow it was less fluent," he told me.

When she met Hale onstage at the Bolshoi, she was less fluent in English than in German, French, and Italian.

Morgan was less fluent and then gobsmacked when Dasun Shanaka, at backward point, hurled himself to his right to take a brilliant diving catch just as Joe Hart used to do.

Robson, dropped cutting on nine by Kumar Sangakkara at first slip, was less fluent but settled, before Gareth Batty drifted one past his outside edge in the first over after lunch, and Ben Foakes stumped him.

Cook, who had scored an England record 23rd Test century on day two, was less fluent on his return and was reprieved on 152 when Ishant Sharma put down the simplest of return catches.

It's hard to disagree with Stoppard when he reports that audiences are less fluent in high- or classical culture than when he started writing.

He is less fluent at postmodern-speak than the other seven members of his company, who are at ease with material that has since been woven into the fabric of contemporary dance.

Certainly, he is less fluent in the subject than his predecessor, Bill Clinton, who displayed an intuitive grasp of how arcane issues like cross-border capital flows shaped everyday lives for better and worse.

Further, when the people in the study were shown a Chinese face on the screen and asked to converse with that person, they were less fluent — though they seemed more socially comfortable — than when they were asked to have the same conversation with someone who was Caucasian.

In Experiment 1, participants judged a variety of different exemplars to be worse category members if they were less fluent (because they were presented in a smaller typeface).

If this correlation also holds for first language speakers who are less fluent in the language due to dwindling frequency of use, then one would expect to see higher intra-speaker variability among speakers of lower proficiency.