How to Use Filipina in a Sentence

Filipina

noun

• And, the Cocina Filipina Food Truck will be around from 5 to 9 p.m. each night of the pop-up.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2023
• The 23-woman Filipina roster was the country’s first team — men’s or women’s — to qualify for the World Cup.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2023
• According to the release, the male suspect was a 52-year-old Hispanic man, and the female was a 45-year-old Filipina female.
  — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• His opponent was a Filipina student named Mary Anne Veloso.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• The 38-year-old Filipina said the partnership with Hawkins for these events felt as intense and fulfilling as their early days in retail — this time without the fog of binge drinking.
  — Alexa Juliana Ard, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Both were Filipina American, both were being raised by single mothers, both were juniors at large public high schools in Los Angeles.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The festival is screening the series’ stand-alone, feature-length penultimate episode, about Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong as a typhoon approaches the city.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• While Hilary’s and Margaret’s lives come undone in their luxury condo building, their Filipina servants move through the gilded space and the world below, where political unrest is brewing.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Her father was a conservative White bus driver, her mother a Filipina maid who had immigrated to the United States after responding to his newspaper ad looking for a wife.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Lustre plays Jamie, an overseas Filipina worker who returns to her isolated home province when rumors of mysterious killings brought about by a primal curse begin to circulate.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• Quezada, whose mother is Filipina and whose father is Mexican, attended tryouts in California for the national team while a junior in college.
  — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• Lucas, who is Filipina American, represents a concerning trend for researchers.
  — Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024