Example sentences for: anglo-

How can you use “anglo-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even during the Second World War, when you would have expected the Anglo-Saxons to react allergically to Germanisms, they continued to infiltrate the language.

  • From time to time scholars have debated whether Modern English should be listed not just as a Germanic language, but in lexical terms as a Romance language--in effect as a hybrid that is now spinning off further hybrids, such as Anglo-Malay and Anglo-Hindi.

  • Such place names as there were applied to clusters of buildings, such as casas reales (“royal houses”), renamed Palace of the Governors by the Anglo-Americans, or Barrio de Analco for the cluster that housed Mexican-Indians.

  • WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.

  • His statements in the United States that victory was the only acceptable "exit strategy" from Yugoslavia are part of a new Anglo-American deal, the Telegraph claimed.


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