How to Use American in a Sentence

American

adjective

• So will there still be American films this year?
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
• We were used to this at stages, but not the American players.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
• But since then, American culture turned its back on the trades.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
• Yet even this three-act work bows, at its center, to American zest.
  — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
• An American flag waves in the background.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
• His game also works well on North American ice.
  — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
• It’s even reached a point where many are simply presumed to be American.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 July 2026
• And their flag is very similar to an American flag.
  — Hannah McIlree, CBS News, 11 June 2026
• More than 300 American cities have it.
  — Harry Bubbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
• The problem, as Cukor saw it, was not that American forces lacked facts.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
• And a red card against an American soccer star sparks debate.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 3 July 2026
• At least six American service members have been killed so far.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
• No one appears to keep track of how many such sleights of hand are cropping up in American homes.
  — Jane Margolies, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2024
• Now, oil from that country will help lower American gas prices.
  — Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
• He was stretched out on the couch, which was draped in a large blanket patterned like the American flag.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• No, this is an assault on, on American values.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• The right to be judged by a jury of your peers is a bedrock of American democracy.
  — Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
• Trump also asked if any of the crew had anything to say to the American people.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• There has even been a nod to a new American audience in recent weeks.
  — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 10 July 2026
• Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• American flags lined the back of the red stage set in Statuary Hall.
  — Jarrell Dillard, Washington Post, 10 July 2026
• Grab a good pair of jeans during the Good American summer sale.
  — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026
• American food, mostly meat, a little fish, but good salads.
  — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 4 June 2026
• Gas prices may not be coming down as quickly as American drivers would like.
  — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
• The arc of American voting history has been with stops and starts.
  — Sam Jacobs, Time, 9 Aug. 2023
• But that doesn't change the way that anybody should be treated under American law.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Amex and Chase have jockeyed for years to be the preferred card for the American elite.
  — Ryan Baker, CNBC, 3 July 2026
• As of Tuesday, six American troops have been killed in combat.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• At what point did gumbo become American?
  — Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026
• Oh was the first, in 2019), and the first Asian American man to do so.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024