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.”

  • The walls were of adobe, which to the first Anglos was mud, pure and simple.

  • 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.

  • 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 Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.

  • For more than 160 years, since the Anglos arrived in Texas, there has been a culture transfer back and forth across the Rio Grande.


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