How to Use ethnic in a Sentence

ethnic

adjective
  • The U.S. has a wide variety of ethnic groups made up of immigrants or their descendants.
  • The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state.
    Ramzy Mardini and Morgan L. Kaplan, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
  • The increase occurred across all racial and ethnic groups.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 8 June 2018
  • Case rates have been rising across racial and ethnic groups.
    Bymike Stobbe, Fortune Well, 8 Nov. 2023
  • There will be a wide array of ethnic food for purchase.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2023
  • Broad agreement that a lot needs to be done to ensure equal rights across racial and ethnic lines.
    Jennifer Agiesta, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
  • In every racial and ethnic group there are trashy people.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The decline in cancer death rates held true for both men and women of all racial and ethnic groups.
    Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 8 July 2021
  • There also will be music, dance and lots of ethnic food.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
  • The thing is, there were not a lot of ethnic heroes on television back then.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Look for mango nectar in the juice aisle or ethnic aisle of most grocery stores.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The researchers didn’t hear ethnic slurs or overt insults.
    Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 26 Mar. 2020
  • His parents host parties with just the right touch of ethnic flavor.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • The declines were spread across racial and ethnic groups and among high- and lower-achievers alike.
    Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The raids have taken place amid tensions between some of the region’s ethnic groups.
    Simon Marks, Bloomberg.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • All three of the particularly large racial or ethnic groups saw a drop.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The fashion world has a long way to go in terms of its racial and ethnic inclusivity.
    Treva Lindsey, Cosmopolitan, 5 May 2017
  • It was supposed to be a defining moment for the world's largest stateless ethnic group.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • And there are still many thousands of children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds who are back in classrooms.
    Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • There are massive racial and ethnic differences in the numbers.
    Dante Chinni, NBC News, 4 June 2023
  • So rather than a bass drum or a kick drum, there were the more ethnic drums: doumbeks and riqs and things like that.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Almost a quarter of Texas home sales in the last year were to ethnic minorities.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In the late-stage trial, the vaccine was effective across racial and ethnic groups, as well as ages.
    Peter Loftus, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Suu Kyi has previously called on all armed ethnic groups to sign the cease-fire.
    Fox News, 11 July 2018
  • Soul, rock, jazz, poetry and a multi-ethnic vibe all flow out of her.
    John Adamian, courant.com, 26 July 2019
  • There are people of all ethnic backgrounds in Spain, of course, and many of them are White.
    Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Is this worse than the ethnic, racial, and other divisions that Schlesinger takes up?
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Members of one ethnic group more say than members of another?
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 June 2019
  • About coalition building and about sharing power across racial and ethnic lines.
    Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The younger women who usually fill in for each anchor even share their ethnic background.
    Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 20 June 2019

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