How to Use Vietnamese in a Sentence

Vietnamese

noun

• The bad guys were the U.S., and the rebels — the little band that could — were the Vietnamese.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• There is not much of a wine list, but the Vietnamese do love their beer.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The gap between the lifestyles of the average Vietnamese and those of the party’s top brass is a touchy subject.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• For the Vietnamese, the conflict was a much more significant sprawl.
  — Nick Hilden, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
• The signals that the North Vietnamese were sending at the missiles to direct them toward the B-52 called uplinks.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• There’s great Vietnamese, omakase, Peruvian and even bagels.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• Many Khmers viewed the Vietnamese more as occupiers than saviors.
  — Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
• Hugo accused the Vietnamese of using cyanide to kill and harvest fish, poisoning and killing off coral reefs that once ringed the island.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 11 Apr. 2024
• Our crew — by and large Vietnamese and a really, really great group of people — hadn’t worked in two years.
  — Ben Feldman, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2023
• For now, though, the team is focusing on getting off to a successful start, which looks likely against the Vietnamese.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• In addition to being a double agent, the captain is biracial, half French and half Vietnamese.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2024
• The photographer, Huy Luong, spoke to her in Vietnamese.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• The Vietnamese lost two exhibitions ahead of the tournament and fell 9-0 to Spain in a closed-door tuneup match in Auckland on July 14.
  — Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2023
• The Vietnamese lost two exhibition matches ahead of the tournament and fell 9-0 to Spain in a closed-door tune-up match in Auckland last Friday.
  — Anne M. Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• Two years later, the North Vietnamese resumed their invasion and finished the conquest of South Vietnam.
  — Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
• One is that the ordinance be publicly available in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
  — Leah Waters, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• In one episode, Downey plays a film director who doesn’t understand why a Chinese actor doesn’t speak Vietnamese.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 25 June 2024
• The Vietnamese, wanting to avoid a double-digit disaster, put 10 players behind the ball and emerged with a respectable 3-0 defeat.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Because her late immigrant father was Vietnamese, her skin is darker than the Chinese side of her family.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Tien and Steinhauer are the Vietnamese Americans doing that on the ground — trying to change the lens through which Vietnam is viewed in this region and eventually across the nation, to change the conversation from war to culture.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Nixon accused the North Vietnamese of deliberately stalling.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Xuande is of Vietnamese descent and can speak conversational Vietnamese, but with the show using a lot of Vietnamese dialogue, Xuande had to refine his language skills.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 May 2024
• People move on by confronting the demons of their pasts, but such a resolution is not so simple for the Vietnamese Diaspora, whose memories are plagued by losses — of life, of land, of childhood.
  — Joshua Glass, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• The book—originally written in Vietnamese—was inspired by the author’s own family and is set in the illustrator’s hometown in Cổ Bản Village.
  — Marsha Takeda-Morrison, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
• Cimino’s films drew criticism for its depictions of the Vietnamese, and its sensationalized scenes of Russian roulette, but the heart of the film belongs to its depiction of small-town America.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
• How to talk about family, grief, trauma and more, in Vietnamese, according to experts and community members.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• His collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem is forthcoming.
  — Nam Le, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2024
• The church has a diverse congregation of thousands of people, offering services in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
  — Abbey McDonald and Ardeshir Tabrizian, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2023
• Nguyen says that in early meetings, producers were uneasy about his insistence that the show center Vietnamese people speaking Vietnamese.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• The novel covers the time just before the war exploded, as American advisers and their families living in Vietnam tried to aid the South Vietnamese but found that their efforts only made the situation worse.
  — Diane Scharper, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024