How to Use Bantu in a Sentence

Bantu

noun

• Harris blessed attendees with Bantu knots, box braids, stitch braids, and more.
  — ELLE, 21 July 2023
• The suit states that on Aug. 20, Weekes-Rivera, 38, arrived to work with her hair arranged in Bantu knots, a style in which the hair is sectioned and twisted around its base to form a spiral.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• The diffuser is meant to define curls or set Bantu knots, while the concentrator nozzle attachment is designed to elongate and lengthen to achieve salon-style blowouts.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• His family is part of the city’s small Somali Bantu community.
  — Amos Barshad, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
• Wafula shows up about an hour into the workout and stands in mud and watches, sometimes calling out encouragement in English or Luganda, the Bantu language preferred in central Uganda.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Their female ancestors, meanwhile, were almost entirely local, with genomes resembling Bantu groups living in the region today.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024