How to Use Haitian in a Sentence
Haitian
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Robert Taylor had the assist with a cross inside the box for the Haitian forward, who placed it past Pedro Gallese to tie the score.
— Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025 -
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 -
Last year, gang violence, including at least four massacres, led to the deaths of more than 5,600 Haitians.
— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025 -
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 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 -
Throughout the ride and the queue, Disneyland park goers will hear everything from Zydeco to Haitian Tara.
— Megan Dubois, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
Nearby, hundreds of mostly African, Haitian, and South American migrants live in tent camps.
— Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 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 -
The top nationalities of those who were processed with an appointment made through the app were Venezuelan, Cuban, Mexican and Haitian.
— Greg Wehner, Fox News, 23 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 -
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 rich, luminous scent is complimented by bergamot, orange, Haitian Amyris oil, leather accord, and musk to create a cologne he'll be totally taken with.
— Annie Blackman, Allure, 29 Jan. 2025 -
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 -
America and Western nations meddling in Haitian affairs is a tradition dating back to that country’s founding.
— Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 -
Authorities arrested the drivers of both vans, identifying them as another Cuban and a Haitian.
— Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025 -
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 -
From dishes like griot (marinated and fried pork shoulder) to the Haitian patty, which is similar to the Jamaican patty but with a fluffier, puff-pastry exterior.
— Essence, 22 Dec. 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
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