How to Use Germanic in a Sentence

Germanic

adjective

• Germanic languages, such as German, English, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages.
• All that mattered was to be free of what, to him, was the Germanic taint of ‘Rosenberg’.
  — Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
• The root dust is Germanic and has referred to fine dry particles or earth for centuries.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• There are also city landscapes, civic milestones, Germanic myths, and biblical scenes.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Mar. 2026
• But small acts of resistance helped to preserve South Tyrol’s Germanic culture.
  — Gina Rich, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• The Goths, a group of Germanic tribes, were famed for being fierce adversaries of the Roman Empire.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
• O’Brien wanted someone moodier and more Germanic for his Maria.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
• Bavarian Inn Lodge The largest hotel in town, this massive, Germanic-style lodge is a playground for all ages.
  — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
• The lantern itself has a Germanic build quality, with an aluminum housing and weather-resistant construction.
  — New Atlas, 26 Feb. 2026
• This major record of early Germanic heroic verse is now a secure part of European cultural history.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• He was sanctioned in August for making comments in his Germanic thought and culture class about free-speech policies, his arrest at a protest and the state of Israel.
  — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 18 Feb. 2026
• Frisian, the Germanic language most closely related to English, is stuck in a tiny coastal area of Holland and western Germany.
  — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
• This old-style Bavarian beer hall can accommodate all fans of Germanic cuisine with jäger schnitzel, wild-boar sausages and a baked pork shank that looks like something a caveman would thomp a dinosaur with.
  — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2026
• The hand-back sequence from car to driver is forcefully Germanic, escalating rapidly from a polite ping to a red flashing dashboard display and then a shaking of the seatbelt.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 May 2022
• Its roots can be primarily found in the languages that form the Germanic and Indo-European language families.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2023
• Steves advises a simple, face-to-face approach that is especially appropriate in Germanic countries, where leaving coins behind is frowned upon.
  — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 4 Apr. 2026
• It is believed that the holiday is called Easter after the Germanic goddess Eastre, who ushered in spring and was the goddess of fertility.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• Though she was born with the Germanic surname of Mayerhofer, Luna’s Hispanic ancestry is genuine on her maternal side.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• In early Germanic societies, Yule was a mid‑winter festival spanning multiple days that honored the solstice and welcomed the inevitable gradual return of light.
  — Marisa McMillan, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025
• Another is that runes were born from the Latin alphabet, following commercial and cultural exchange between Germanic peoples and the Romans.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2023
• The pseudoscientific notion of a superior white Aryan race – essentially Germanic – was a core tenet of Hitler’s Nazi regime.
  — Aram Roston, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
• By the third century, however, Roman armies advanced further into Germanic territory.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The North was put forward as the birthing ground of European culture, specifically Germanic culture, a misconception that would help lead Germany into the abyss the following century.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
• Bakers have been shaping cookies to resemble animals since at least the 6th or 7th century, when they were used for a pre-Christian Germanic/Nordic midwinter festival known as Julfest.
  — Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2025
• The longstanding ritual began when Roman legions brought that tradition to the Germanic tribes who concluded that if the sun appeared on Candlemas Day and a hedgehog cast a shadow, there would be six more weeks of bad weather to come.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 3 Feb. 2024
• English, for example, belongs to the Germanic group, which also includes German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Scots, Yiddish, and a few others.
  — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025