How to Use Filipino in a Sentence

Filipino

noun

• In the melee, a Filipino sailor’s thumb got sliced off by a sharp piece of metal.
  — Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
• Those spots range from Italian and Filipino to soul food and seafood.
  — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2023
• That meant putting the Filipino restaurant on the backburner.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
• This mom-and-pop shop grills pork and chicken Filipino barbecue on skewers.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
• Read on to learn more about her warm-hearted Filipino restaurant in Mount Pleasant.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• In one of the videos, a warship bearing the number 164 comes very close to the Filipino ship’s port side.
  — Peter Guo, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
• He was also excited by the opportunity to make his mark as a Filipino chef in the city.
  — Sara Rosenthal, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2024
• Lechon at Oko People have been saying Filipino is the next big cuisine for more than a decade.
  — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
• The next largest groups of Asian people who responded were Chinese and Filipino.
  — Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 25 Sep. 2024
• There are Bangladeshi pizzas in Detroit and Filipino ones in Chicago.
  — Luke Fortney, Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2025
• Here, Garlock leans into flavors first introduced to him in culinary school by a Filipino friend.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 4 Sep. 2024
• He was raised in North Carolina, but his mom’s Filipino culture played a huge part in his upbringing.
  — Jasmine Ting, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2023
• For the Filipino American, the tribute was definitely not a waste of food.
  — Terry Tang, ajc, 22 May 2023
• The co-founders are also developing a feature film, with a Filipino writer signed to the production.
  — Sara Merican, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
• Towa Bird, who is Filipino and British, has experienced some of what Kehrer describes.
  — Abigail Covington, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2024
• That means the only way for Filipino Swifties to see Tay in person is to travel to another country.
  — Vulture, 1 Sep. 2023
• Umu-Cais’ ink is a combination of Filipino and Samoan tribal tattoos that make up an entire sleeve.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
• Nance, whose mother is Filipino and father Black and Arab, was among the top three contestants of the season that wrapped up last week.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• To cook rice the best way — the Filipino way, according to her — fill a rice cooker with water just below the second knuckle of your middle finger.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Saweetie’s mom is Filipino and Chinese, and the former culture has always been an integral part of the rapper’s life.
  — Kara Nesvig, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
• The new Filipino restaurant, Maynila, will draw from David’s background growing up in the Philippines.
  — Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
• Last year the 37-year-old staged a Filipino holiday market across the street from HiFi to draw crowds to the neighborhood.
  — Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• In the middle stretch of the event, ena mori, an artist with Filipino and Japanese roots, was joined by keyboardist Tim and drummer Cairo in club asia.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
• The male nurse who helped her in the hospital was Filipino, Rodrigo said, and just happened to have the same name as her grandfather, who had passed away a few months before.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
• The show also marked the first time Salonga got to play a Filipino on Broadway, headlining an all-Filipino cast.
  — Robert Ito, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
• Nearly half of those Asian Americans are Filipino, and many of them voted for the first time in the 2020 election.
  — Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Oct. 2024
• At the Public, Ramos, a Tony-winning costume designer, was the only key creative on the team who was a Filipino.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023
• Along the refrigerated sides of the produce section are loose and packaged items like fresh greens and herbs, hot peppers, oyster mushrooms, Filipino eggplants and more.
  — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Campeau designed the slums of the Filipino port to be claustrophobic, with architecture designed to impose, entrap, and possess.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
• The campaign also has staged events with Filipino civic groups in the district, which is 61% Latino and nearly 15% Asian.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024