Sentence examples for were able to communicate from inspiring English sources

All study participants were living in the community and were able to communicate and be understood in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Punjabi.

Fortunately, I speak Spanish and we were able to communicate.

Between his limited understanding of English and both of us pointing to the drawings, we were able to communicate.

Turks were able to communicate over social media, sometimes using a VPN when Twitter or Facebook seemed to be inaccessible.

What the pilots and crews were able to communicate with air-traffic controllers has not been revealed.

City officials said that while some officers experienced "intermittent" transmission problems, officers were able to communicate with one another.

Their poster designs were able to communicate the dynamic reality of cinema through the graphic language of montage and close-up.

"They knew each other extremely well, and were able to communicate at the level of equals, even if the President's primacy was never in doubt".

This was a shame, as the guards thought it would be a great thing if they were able to communicate more readily with the prisoners.

An enormous breakfast waited on the table and, between us, in my halting Spanish and his slightly better English, we were able to communicate.

The family didn't speak Polish, but somehow we were able to communicate through sign language and an English-Polish dictionary that I always carried with me.