How to Use Hmong in a Sentence

Hmong

noun
  • Elijah is Hmong and White with dark blonde hair and brown eyes.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Meet at the downtown library and bring enough Hmong sausage and rice to feed 40.
    Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The second reading was in Hmong; the communion song was in Burmese.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
  • One member of the Hmong Healers Collective was a substance abuse counselor.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
  • Today, Granville is home to a diverse community of Blacks, Hispanics, whites and Hmong.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • Some Hmong residents see definite downsides, noting that many porters and guides who used to lead hikes up Fansipan are out of work.
    Patrick Scott, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Hong said it’s been a decades-long push to get Asian and Hmong Americans recognition in the classroom, and similar bills had previously fallen flat.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Pai Yang expanded it in 2016 with a larger food court, event space, offices for health care providers, and more stalls for vendors to sell food items, traditional Hmong clothing and other goods.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Perhaps the most subtly frightening part of the George Floyd case was that two of the three officers who were complicit in his death were themselves minorities—one Hmong, another mixed-race.
    Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Thao, who is Hmong American, received a 3 1/2-year federal sentence.
    Jim Salter and Mark Vancleave, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • German, Polish, Hmong and Lao residents also make up the current neighborhood.
    Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 17 May 2024
  • Xiong added that this bill could allow more Hmong Americans to feel proud of their heritage, and continue upholding the traditions and remembering the sacrifices of their ancestors who came before them.
    Skyler Chun, Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2023
  • Her message is a reminder for anyone facing health challenges as well as the broader community of girls and women in sports, especially in the Hmong community, in which Lee has noticed girls tend to take on more traditional roles at home.
    Christine Yu, SELF, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Health officials won’t know that vaccine information should be made more accessible in Hmong neighborhoods.
    Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Asian immigrants are moving to middle America for jobs — Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong.
    Soo Youn, NBC News, 14 July 2023
  • Organizations within the Afghan, Burmese, Congolese, Hmong and other communities gather for a resource fair and share cultural cuisine and performances.
    Jane Park, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • However, many Hmong and Chinese community members, who are part of the county’s farming population, said the measures were largely enforced in Asian American areas, lawsuits allege.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023

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