How to Use all-American in a Sentence
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At 150, Laird Root is an all-American ranked No. 8 in the country.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024 -
The all-American wildness pays off — the apple is a success.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023 -
There was one guy who was a Picker in a later season who was very beefy and all-American.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Hart had been named the most outstanding player of the Big East tournament during his sophomore year, and was a third-team all-American his junior year.
— Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023 -
The classic raised yeast donuts are lightly fried to a soft, golden hue that embodies the quintessential all-American donut.
— Zoe Baillargeon, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2023 -
Andretti is making a bid for adding an all-American team to the grid in 2026, partnering with Cadillac on a bid that has yet to receive final approval.
— Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023 -
The movie is an ode to a certain brand of all-American tough guys, but mostly attracted praise, including yours, for its female star, Jodie Comer.
— Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023 -
As these vintage Bon Appétit recipes show, the all-American ham has been worthy of our devotion for decades, and if the tradition ain’t broke, there’s really no reason to change it.
— Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
— William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Eventually, though, the chain’s all-American, homestyle fare, often served in family-size portions, fell out of step with tastes.
— Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 -
Jason Sudeikis made a career out of playing a specific sort of Midwestern bro: overconfident, all-American, and a bit of a… jerk.
— Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 31 May 2023 -
Willy Chavarria borrowed its plaids and houndstooths and juxtaposed them against nods to Western and Chicano all-American fashion.
— José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024 -
Calvin Klein has always trafficked in high and low — in classic all-American athleticism, shot through with an untethered primal lust.
— Soraya Roberts, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024 -
The concession menu boasts the all-American favorites, including double cheeseburgers, onion rings and snow cones.
— The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024 -
Jimmy Buffett, the all-American musician turned mogul who spun his beach bum folk-rock hits into a prolific business empire, has died at 76.
— Ellie Harmsworth Bloomberg News (tns), Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2023 -
Green was an all-American at Michigan State University in his junior and senior seasons.
— Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Biden gets to promote green tech while also propping up an all-American, job-creating industry.
— Allison Morrow, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024 -
Indeed, the premiere promises all-American barbeques and dads playing golf, as well as introducing Cruz, Taylor and Cartwright’s 2-year-old son.
— Hadley Meares, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2024 -
Reading it reminded me of being in middle school and sitting cross-legged on the couch with my neighbor, a freckled all-American blonde a few years older than I who had just gotten a job working at Abercrombie & Fitch at the mall.
— Dana Schwartz, Washington Post, 24 July 2023 -
The filmmaker’s friend, onetime student and documentary subject is also a captivating leading man, and his absence from most of the final sequence of Bushman, after expressing, with a laugh, that all-American need for a burger, is an aching void.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024 -
At 150, Laird Root is an all-American ranked No. 8 in the country.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024 -
The all-American wildness pays off — the apple is a success.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023 -
There was one guy who was a Picker in a later season who was very beefy and all-American.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Hart had been named the most outstanding player of the Big East tournament during his sophomore year, and was a third-team all-American his junior year.
— Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023 -
The classic raised yeast donuts are lightly fried to a soft, golden hue that embodies the quintessential all-American donut.
— Zoe Baillargeon, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2023 -
Andretti is making a bid for adding an all-American team to the grid in 2026, partnering with Cadillac on a bid that has yet to receive final approval.
— Sahil Kapur, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023 -
The movie is an ode to a certain brand of all-American tough guys, but mostly attracted praise, including yours, for its female star, Jodie Comer.
— Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023 -
As these vintage Bon Appétit recipes show, the all-American ham has been worthy of our devotion for decades, and if the tradition ain’t broke, there’s really no reason to change it.
— Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Why not flail around in defense of my all-American single proprietorship?
— William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023 -
Eventually, though, the chain’s all-American, homestyle fare, often served in family-size portions, fell out of step with tastes.
— Emily Heil, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
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