Example sentences for: gypsies

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

  • It is a very old argot influenced by many languages, including French, English, Italian, Greek, and Hebrew, and was spoken by the gypsies of Spain.

  • Permanent displays show the fast-disappearing world of Hungarian rural life and folklore; these are underpinned by trenchant temporary exhibitions dealing with current issues, such as the lives of Budapest’s gypsies.

  • The gypsies were always the most oppressed members of the community, but they have been manipulated for so long by Belgrade that it has destroyed much of the feeling of social solidarity between them and Albanians."

  • Interdicted are burly “too often associated with large black men” (large, yes; black, no), fried chicken “often used to refer to the cuisine of black people” (something that customers of Colonel Sanders might well dispute), gyp “because it insults gypsies” (only for those who are aware of the etymological nuances of the language), go Dutch insults “citizens of the Netherlands” (what utter balderdash !), Ugh!

  • High to the right of Albaicín is the Gitano (Gypsy) area of Sacramonte, famous for its caves and tablaos (literally stages) where gypsies, for the benefit of tourists, reenact wedding ceremonies.


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