How to Use Chinese in a Sentence
Chinese
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Electric cars — nearly all of them Chinese — were the one bright spot, with sales up 11%.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 2024-12-23
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Old posters, in English and Chinese, still line the deserted halls.
—Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 2023-10-30
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Bengtsson said many of the factories in Vietnam are owned by Chinese.
—Arthur Zaczkiewicz, WWD, 2025-03-03
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Mandarin, a form of Chinese, is the most common language in Taiwan.
—Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 2024-10-14
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Sesame Chinese One of the best hole-in-the-wall local Chinese restaurants in town.
—Vogue, 2024-04-03
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On a trip to Malaysia, I was introduced to a dish called Chinese Steamboat.
—Charlotte Observer, 2024-01-31
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Woods' mother once referred to her ancestry as Thai, Chinese and Dutch.
—Jonathan Landrum Jr., Quartz, 2024-02-13
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Throngs of college students joined the overnight ride, the latest trend involving young Chinese traveling on the cheap.
—Peter Guo, NBC News, 2024-11-11
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Red chiles and Sichuan pepper mingle to create the fiery, mouth-numbing flavor profile known in Chinese as mala.
—Saveur Editors, Saveur, 2023-09-28
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Her mother is Jamaican and Chinese while her father is Black and Polish.
—Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 2024-05-05
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Macau here really seems like an illusion, a Chinese Brigadoon that maybe was there or wasn’t for Lord Doyle.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
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Almost no court women were taught to read or write Chinese, the language of the imperial bureaucracy.
—Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
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Newsweek reached out to the Philippine coast guard and Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with requests for comment.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 2025-03-25
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Murphy is a fan of the minidramas, known as duanju in Chinese, which focus heavily on romance, revenge and fantasy.
—Yixuan Tan, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
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Most families on board are Indian, Chinese, Filipino.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
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The mussel is commonly referred to as the brightband Tongchuan mussel in English, or ming jian tong chuan bang in Chinese, researchers said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
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Adding to its unusual status, the play is performed in Chinese by a cast of Western actors who are based in the Middle Kingdom.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 2024-01-10
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There’s Mexican, Chinese, Indigenous and Catholic imagery all braided into one mural.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
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The sections are divided into the Hawaiian, Chinese, and Japanese areas, reflecting the cultures that have left the most prominent imprints on the islands.
—Cemile Kavountzis, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
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While Chinese Taipei earned a 3-0 win over Mexico to advance in the international bracket, much of the conversation after the game centered on a rare pitching feat.
—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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Former player Fan Zhiyi, dubbed a trailblazer for being one of the first Chinese who played in the English leagues in the 1990s, said the loss was predictable, but not to that extent.
—Chris Lau, CNN, 2024-09-06
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One way hosts interact with their teams is through pin trading, a major staple thought to have begun in the 1970s when a team from Chinese Taipei brought pins to the tournament and exchanged them with players from other teams.
—Zach Powell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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Written in Korean, English and Chinese, the guide is aimed at informing foreign visitors who may lack knowledge of local regulations and culture, say officials.
—Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
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However, officials believe most of the individuals on the bus were Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern and Filipino.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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This 1,382 square foot space is located next to Schezuan Chinese Restaurant and across the street from the new La La Land Cafe off of Camp Bowie Boulevard.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025
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From the first delivery of an MG car to the Nordic country in January 2020, Chinese EV brands have gone on to capture a combined market share of roughly 10%.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
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Visit from November to January to see the famed North Carolina Chinese Lantern Festival, where the grounds of the venue are transformed into a glowing wonderland of larger-than-life silk sculpture lanterns.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
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Led researchers at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team used gene editing to create male-sterile flowers, enabling the robot to produce hybrid seeds efficiently.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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It is presented with the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community, United Chinese Americans-Chicago and Midwest Asian Health Association.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
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More Than Doubles Chinese Student Numbers The 600,000 figure Trump cites is also much higher than the number of Chinese students most recently tracked by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
—Anna Esaki-Smith, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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