How to Use Bantu in a Sentence

Bantu

noun
  • Harris blessed attendees with Bantu knots, box braids, stitch braids, and more.
    ELLE, 21 July 2023
  • In Bantu culture, Salim explains, the two balance each other.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • His family is part of the city’s small Somali Bantu community.
    Amos Barshad, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The diffuser is meant to define curls or set Bantu knots, while the concentrator nozzle attachment is designed to elongate and lengthen to achieve salon-style blowouts.
    Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
  • Their female ancestors, meanwhile, were almost entirely local, with genomes resembling Bantu groups living in the region today.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Bantu language used in the two emails to The Times is clunky in spots, according to a translator who reviewed the emails, while the English of the court documents the company has filed has been fluent.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • Wafula shows up about an hour into the workout and stands in mud and watches, sometimes calling out encouragement in English or Luganda, the Bantu language preferred in central Uganda.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023

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