How to Use Haitian in a Sentence
Haitian
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And while the specter of Mach’s Haitian ancestry is never far from reach, Pray for Haiti also plays like his witty facsimile of a rap star.
— Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The Haitian Revolution has been described by scholars as the realization of white slave owners’ worst nightmare: Black rule.
— Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made By History, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Still, the Trump campaign has doubled down on the unfounded claims about Haitian.
— Armando Garcia, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
As Trump’s recent screeds, suggesting that Haitians are eating cats and dogs in the heartland, remind us, there is much bigotry and fear about newcomers in this nation of immigrants.
— Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 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 -
In addition, 2 million Haitians are facing severe hunger, according to the report.
— Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 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 use of Vodou in clandestine boat voyages is common and often credited for Haitians’ safe and undetected arrival at their destination.
— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 July 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 -
Immerse yourself in cultural food, music and vendors, games and activities at the annual Carolina Haitian Food Festival.
— Alexis Clinton, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
To simultaneously give the Haitian, the Nigerian, and the American her distinctions while also linking them in sociological relation, implicitly rooted in an understanding of the Atlantic in which slavery launched the race.
— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024 -
In September, Vance repeatedly amplified unsubstantiated rumors about Haitians stealing and eating Springfield residents’ pets.
— Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger,annie Nova,rebecca Picciotto,josephine Rozzelle,brian Schwartz,ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
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