Example sentences for: creoles

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

  • Spaniards born and raised in Cuba, known as criollos (creoles), managed the sugar-cane plantations but were not involved in the running of the country.

  • Likewise when English-based pidgins and creoles are written down, the phonetic transcriptions use a similar system of modified spellings to indicate pronunciation.

  • In return, the local Creoles considered themselves “more worldly” than the rustic Americans.

  • Most of the conventions established for representing nonstandard forms of English are applied to English-based pidgins and creoles when used in literature.

  • Out-manned and outgunned, Jackson mobilized a force of somewhat irregular members: an unlikely coalition of militiamen, local Creoles, free blacks, Choctaws, and associates of the privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte (see page 74).


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