Example sentences for: wetback

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

  • Alambrista is not as common an expression as wetback, but it is used frequently by the media.

  • It was a political film that incorporated all of the standard characters that would appear in countless other films and novels of the Chicano experience: the wetback, the pocho (half Mexican), the coyote (smuggler) who smuggles people into the United States, and the grower Mister Sterling.

  • Like the term wetback, this is an expression many Chicanos can identify with since many have family members who have entered the United States through nonlegal means.

  • In Mexico, the term sometimes used is espaldas mojadas, a literal translation for the word wetback.

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