Example sentences for: chinese-

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

  • If anything, their book only makes things worse, says Orville Schell in the New York Times : Bernstein and Munro "have unrepentantly plunged harpoons into the tenderest interstices of the Chinese-American relationship."

  • He tells this story in a rather different way from the history of ETS, with an emphasis on the role of some activists, lawyers and others, who entered college and university at a time when meritocratic considerations were not yet affected in a major way by racial considerations, and when a number of young Japanese- and Chinese-Americans had opportunities to attend elite schools they would probably have not been able to in the pre-meritocratic age.

  • And the presumption that Chinese-Americans are merely Chinese people who happen to be in America, who could just as easily be in Indonesia or Malaysia, strikes me as fallacious, even dangerous.

  • Immediately to the east in Commerce Court is an exhilarating 57-story glass-and-stainless-steel tower by Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei, designer of the new wing of Washington’s National Gallery and the Great Pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris.

  • The former chief of counterintelligence told the Washington Post that investigators targeted Lee because he is Chinese-American and that there is not a "shred of evidence" against him . However, an Energy Department official told the New York Times that the charges of racism are bunk and that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background.


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