How to Use Haitian in a Sentence

Haitian

noun

• Cut off from the world, more and more Haitians are now going hungry, aid workers are warning.
  — Michael Rios, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• Just last week, the Coast Guard repatriated 65 Haitians to their home country.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• The Haitian is now tied with fellow striker Evan Conway as the team’s leading scorer with 10 goals.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• Nearly 5 million Haitians do not get enough food to eat on a daily basis.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• In a nation of twelve million people, there have been at least a dozen massacres by gangs fighting over turf, killing more than a thousand Haitians last year alone.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• And Haitian Rara-style music will be heavy on bamboo horns played by, in this case, animatronic bobcats and bears.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• Many of these messages are in response to the increasingly dire news in the press, some of which echoes what many of us in the global Haitian diaspora hear from our family and friends.
  — Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
• Basic goods including food and life-saving medication are dwindling; nearly 2 million Haitians are on the verge of famine.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
• After years of backing corrupt and undemocratic leaders, the U.S. government has a chance to back Haitians promoting democracy and the rule of law.
  — Pierre Esperance, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2024
• However, one person can have more than one encounter, and the figure does not include Haitians who arrived on Florida's and Puerto Rico's shores.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes The Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• The mission is expected to strengthen local security and to reinforce the Haitian National Police in its pursuit of the gangs.
  — Richard Roth, CNN, 2 Oct. 2023
• Lawmakers are in the process of repealing that provision in response to an injunction from a federal judge, after a group of Haitian immigrants sued.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• Flights were canceled and border towns usually teeming with vendors and Haitians crossing daily to work in the Dominican Republic were subdued.
  — MartÍn Adames AlcÁntara and DÁnica Coto The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
• The Eucalyptus and Haitian Vetiver ingredients deliver a clean and fresh scent ideal for any vibe.
  — Valerie Butler, Essence, 19 Apr. 2024
• The Haitian Revolution in the early nineteenth century and its slaughter of whites shaped the Cuban political landscape; many whites saw the drive for sovereignty as synonymous with Black ascendancy.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Performed in both English and Haitian Kreyòl, the music interlaces field recordings, electronic drones, and vocals with a seven-member chamber ensemble of winds, strings, and percussion.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
• History – and suspicions While most Haitians express compassion for those displaced, there’s still a fear that movement out of the capital is simply spreading lawlessness further across the country.
  — Lesly Succés, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
• Named for Haitian Revolution leader Toussaint Louverture, the company was founded in 2005.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 28 June 2024
• That pride filters down even into celebrating Haitian Heritage Month with author readings, cultural performances and flag-raising ceremonies.
  — Fredlyn Pierre Louis, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
• That question sparks an intimate, urgent exploration by this Haitian/American composer, singer, musician and activist into her own identity.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2024

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024