How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence

sub-Saharan

adjective

• Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• For the first time, the world is starting to roll out malaria vaccines to children in sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Aug. 2024
• Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
• The decrease in aid for sub-Saharan Africa from rich countries last year compared with 2021.
  — Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
• The second sub-Saharan winning city has shown a steady climb since first appearing on the list three years ago.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
• Apartheid is something largely left in the past for the 70 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa that is under the age of 30.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
• For instance, sub-Saharan Africa sees 56% more heat waves.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
• These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• Hippos, which are native sub-Saharan Africa, can reach weights of up to 4.5 tons and are known to be aggressive.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2023
• That showed the most extreme rains keep happening in sub-Saharan Africa, at least through December 2021, the end of the data.
  — CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
• In sub-Saharan Africa, 19 countries are unable to make debt payments or are at high risk of reaching that point.
  — Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024
• For decades, Egypt has been a refuge for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trying to escape war or poverty.
  — Samy Magdy, Fortune Europe, 17 Mar. 2024
• Death counts have remained low throughout sub-Saharan Africa for most of the pandemic.
  — Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Historically, this has been the dietary trend for much of sub-Saharan Africa, but this is starting to change— one egg at a time.
  — Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
  — Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024
• The rates are similar across the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and people in this region are being affected at younger ages than those in other parts of the world.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• That's more than the domestic water use of over 330 million people in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Two-thirds of this population live in sub-Saharan Africa.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024
• Servals are medium-sized wild cats native to sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• Currently, there is no licensed vaccine against the X strain, which may be the cause of meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
• Niger is a key partner of the European Union in helping curb the flow of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 29 July 2023
• The world’s fastest growing music market is in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the main industry body.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Just over a year later, the agency has been forced to backtrack, with a far more serious epidemic brewing across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
  — David Cox, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024
• Its Goncourt was seen as a coup in the world of French letters, which had never before conferred its highest recognition on a writer from sub-Saharan Africa.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• For example, in some high-poverty sub-Saharan African countries, as many as two out of three adults operate or are in the process of starting their own business.
  — Michael H. Morris, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
• The award was given following Mpofu's 25 years of dedication to the sub-Saharan wild dogs.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
• Similarly, when living in sub-Saharan Africa, keep in mind that Black cultures are wide and diverse.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
• The study certainly doesn’t absolve Chinese firms of any wrongdoing in sub-Saharan Africa, and only deals with pay in two countries.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024