Example sentences for: spanish-speaking

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

  • The project aims to reach the growing number of people who are following the agricultural migrant stream to Oregon but don't share the language and culture of the Spanish-speaking farmworker majority.

  • Anglos usually referred to the Spanish-speaking element as native or, again in a kind of leveling parallelism, as Spanish , never as Spaniards , on the model, probably unconscious, of Anglo , short for Anglo-American . Hispanics who prefer to emphasize cultural ties with Mexico, especially la Republica Azteca, as most in New Mexico definitely do not, may prefer to go by the name of Chicano , which implies political as much as national or ethnic identity.

  • Forty years ago, before a sizable emigration from Mexico into New Mexico, in this state the Spanish-speaking element of the population carelessly called itself mexicano , as some of the older Hispanics still do, though New Mexico had not been part of Mexico for more than a century and then for only about a quarter of a century after New Spain became the Mexican Republic.

  • I've collected lots of anecdotal newspaper stories in which employers in Miami, for example, claim they can't find Spanish speakers, let alone bilinguals, to hire to deal with their Spanish-speaking clientele.

  • Many states in the southeastern United States where farmworkers are common lack a significant Spanish-speaking bar.


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