English Sentence Gateway

About This Service

Complementary Learning Tools

Direct Query Endpoints

About This Service

This sentence-focused gateway aggregates high-quality linguistic data from trusted sources, emphasizing contextual learning through complete sentences rather than isolated words. The Word Meanings and Definition Sentences sections draw content from both the Free Dictionary API and WordNik API, while the Authentic Sentences section showcases real-world usage samples exclusively from the WordNik API's extensive corpus. This combination provides you with a complete understanding of both meaning and contextual usage.

Features and Resources

Word Meanings: Look up comprehensive definitions as the foundation for understanding sentences
Definition Sentences: Learn how words function within carefully crafted example sentences
Authentic Sentences: Study how words are used in real-world contexts from various publications
My Sentence Collection: Build your own personalized sentence database from any text. This tool extracts words and their contextual sentences, allowing you to quickly retrieve all sentences containing a specific word when needed.

Note: For optimal learning experience, all words' details (whether viewing, downloading, or copying) are provided in descending order of word frequency. This helps prioritize more commonly used words first.

The Power of Sentence-Based Learning

While individual words form the building blocks of language, sentences provide the essential context that gives words their true meaning and demonstrates their natural usage. Learning through complete sentences offers numerous advantages: you see words in their proper grammatical structures, understand collocation patterns, grasp nuanced meanings, and develop a more intuitive feel for the language. By focusing on sentences rather than isolated words, you'll develop a more authentic and comprehensive understanding of English.

Complementary Learning Tools

Enhance your sentence-based learning experience with these complementary tools that work seamlessly with the English Sentence Gateway:

Immersive Translate: A powerful bilingual translation extension that creates side-by-side translations for websites, PDFs, EPUB eBooks, and even video subtitles. Perfect for language learners who want to compare English sentences with their native language equivalents.
欧路翻译 (Lulu): A comprehensive browser extension that enables word translation with hover functionality, webpage translation, and supports vocabulary building with features for saving and reviewing new words in context.
NaturalReader: An AI text-to-speech tool with realistic voices across multiple languages. Listen to example sentences to improve pronunciation and comprehension while building listening skills.
Speechify: A premium text-to-speech reader with natural-sounding voices that lets you listen to sentences at adjustable speeds. Ideal for auditory learners and for practicing listening comprehension with authentic examples.
讯飞有声 (Xunfei YouSheng): A sophisticated text-to-speech application by iFlytek featuring nearly 100 natural-sounding AI voices. It can read webpages, documents, text, images, books, and novels—perfect for improving pronunciation and listening comprehension while studying sentence patterns.
Gaminik: A real-time screen translator that automatically converts text in games, comics, images, and more. Ideal for English learners who encounter unfamiliar sentences while gaming or reading digital content—look up the translations instantly, then use the Sentence Gateway to explore deeper meanings and similar examples.

Using these tools alongside the English Sentence Gateway creates a comprehensive learning environment where you can understand words in context, hear their pronunciation within sentences, and see translations—all working together to accelerate your English language acquisition through natural, contextual learning.

Direct Query Endpoints

You can directly query our sentence-focused service using these specialized endpoints:

Word Meanings: https://zealy.site/endic/definitions?ws=your,words
Definition Sentences: https://zealy.site/endic/defexamples?ws=your,words
Authentic Sentences: https://zealy.site/endic/wnexamples?ws=your,words

Add &vb parameter to any endpoint for verbose mode (e.g., ?ws=word&vb). In verbose mode, each definition and sentence will be prefixed with the queried word, making it easier to identify the topic word when reviewing content, especially useful when listening to content rather than reading it.

Size Control Parameters

Control the amount of output with the following parameters:

For Word Meanings endpoints: &dn=N&en=M where dn limits the number of definitions per word and en limits sentences per definition
For Sentence endpoints: &en=M where en limits the number of sentences per word
Example: /endic/definitions?ws=happy&dn=2&en=1 will show at most 2 definitions for "happy", each with at most 1 sentence example

Default values are 200 for both parameters. Minimum is 0, maximum is 200. When more items are available than requested, the system randomly selects from the available content, providing diverse sentences on each request. This randomization applies to all viewing, copying, and downloading operations.

Replace your,words with the word or words you want to look up. Multiple words should be separated by commas.