Example sentences for: anglos

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

  • Anglos call it “the Main” and French-Canadians make a nice — and rare — compromise with “la Main.”

  • Anglos coined the word buckaroo, meaning vaquero, because they disliked the word cowboy and did not want to call themselves by that name.

  • In the verbal folklore repertoire of Chicanos, jokes abound about Mexicans who become Anglos and adopt the values, mannerisms, food, clothing styles, and verbal expressions of the dominant society.

  • And where have all the Anglos gone?

  • Formally correct but pretentious is the street name Camino del Monte Sol , which before it was paved was sometimes irreverently called Camino del Muddy Soil . Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.


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