Example sentences for: ethnic

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

  • Scorecard: Significant damage to the Serbs' air defenses and command centers, but not to Serb ground forces, which are escalating their assaults on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

  • A third group, not of different ethnic origin from the Japanese mainstream but unquestionably inferior in status, are the burakumin (“village dwellers,” a euphemism for their old caste name — meaning “much filth” — which was officially abolished at the end of the 19th century).

  • If you are a member of the Mina ethnic group of West Africa it could be almost anything, even your own head, as the phrase for I have a headache in its literal translation means My head is eating me.

  • An editorial mocks the overtures white politicians make to minorities: Republicans are "dorky and patronizing;" Bradley is "schoolmarmy" and self-righteous; Gore is "cartoonish"; and none is serious about dismantling the racial and ethnic classifications that still plague American law.

  • The film follows a collection of teen-agers from different ethnic and economic backgrounds (ranging from WASPy country-clubbers to middle-class Jews to blacks who have recently been integrated via forced busing) as they mix in 1954 Baltimore.


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