How to Use Latino in a Sentence

Latino

noun
  • The man who took the car is described as Latino and in his 30s to 40s.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • Frenk, who will start his new role on Jan. 1, will be the first Latino to lead the school in its 105-year history.
    Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • The men were white, Black, and Latino, and appeared to range in age from about twenty-five to sixty.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
  • It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2023
  • And as the shop’s Latino fry cook Rafael, Marcel Ferrin has the bright, earnest, hopefulness of youth.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
  • The victim described the suspect as a male in his late teens or early 20s and either White or Latino.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • White flight has led to a population that’s now mostly Black and Latino.
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • Even for those of us who do identify as such, Latino does not seem to work as a private identity.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But the district is also nearly 50 percent Black and Latino.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • But many Black and Latino Americans find themselves on the outside looking in.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
  • Forty or so people, most of them Black or Latino, gathered in the reception area of the Bronx Defenders office.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • New customers can offset this with a one-time discount of $8 off, but it can only be applied to Latino Plan subscribers.
    Kalea Martin, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The man, described as Latino and in his late 20s or early 30s, fell to the ground and was trying to get back up when he was hit by a second car, a light-colored full-size SUV, in the northbound lane.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Many snapped their fingers in approval as dozens of speakers — almost all Latino — urged council members to vote for a cease-fire.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • About 52% of the aid has gone to Latino and Black Californians, who together make up about 29% of the state’s homeowners.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Meetings can or should take place at the Latino Cultural Center, where there’s free and ample parking.
    Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • As a Latino, Lazo didn’t have the luxury of job hopping and sometimes found himself behind the eight ball, but banked life with the finesse of a pool champion.
    Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Feb. 2024
  • About half of students identify as Latino, while 60% speak a language other than English at home.
    Clio Koh, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
  • The school is in the midst of another demographic shift: from almost exclusively Black to Black and Latino.
    Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In 2021, he was invited to a leather party by a friend and experienced the complete opposite — there were many more Latinos.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • The Latino museum did a lot of collecting around farm workers, to be able to talk about labor and immigration.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
  • Max will also be highlighting all of the winners of their Latino Short Film Competition.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The role earned Olmos the only lead actor Oscar nomination for a Latino.
    Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The fastest growing segment of evangelicals in the US are Latino Americans.
    John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The successful Latino pulls himself up by his bootstraps, loves and serves his country, and seeks to enrich it with his contributions.
    J.p Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Black and Latino Americans are up to twice as likely as whites to develop dementia.
    Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
  • For months, speculation has swirled about whether Bass would seek to make a statement by appointing a woman or a Latino for the first time in the department’s long history.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In 2008, Karol landed a meeting with Universal Music Latino, which offered her a deal as an in-house songwriter.
    Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • On Monday, Latino Justice filed a lawsuit against the department for failing to notify officers of the administrative charges against them in some cases.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 31 July 2024
  • Hispanic is about language (countries where Spanish is the first language), whereas Latino is about geography (countries in Latin America).
    Laura Barrero, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024

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