How to Use Filipina in a Sentence
Filipina
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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
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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
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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
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His opponent was a Filipina student named Mary Anne Veloso.
—Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lucas, who is Filipina American, represents a concerning trend for researchers.
—Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
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