Example sentences for: mexicans

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

  • The popular image of a Mexican with a large sombrero sleeping under a cactus very likely originated from these early writings of traveling Americans, with the result that the icon has become imprinted forever upon the collective character of Chicanos and Mexicans.

  • He was not "William Bonney" and was not a killer of Indians and Mexicans.

  • “The result of such efforts to discredit Mexico and justify war was a widespread belief that the God--forsaken Mexicans were unworthy to keep the valuable resources and land they had inherited from Spain” (Sanchez 1990, 9).

  • Lummis “discovered” the Mexicans in Colorado, New Mexico, and California in the 1880s and 1890s and became enamored of the Mexican way of life, especially of their “hospitality, courtesy, and respect for age” (Heisley 60).

  • He equated Spanish folk songs with the romantic past of the Californios and Mexicans and felt almost a nostalgic fascination for early California history and the era of the large ranchos.


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