How to Use Haitian in a Sentence

Haitian

noun

• Cut off from the world, more and more Haitians are now going hungry, aid workers are warning.
  — Michael Rios, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
• Nearly 5 million Haitians do not get enough food to eat on a daily basis.
  — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
• Just last week, the Coast Guard repatriated 65 Haitians to their home country.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• In a nation of twelve million people, there have been at least a dozen massacres by gangs fighting over turf, killing more than a thousand Haitians last year alone.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• And Haitian Rara-style music will be heavy on bamboo horns played by, in this case, animatronic bobcats and bears.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• But even for Haitians in the capital, the city remains inaccessible due to the gangs control of roads and its tiny airport.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
• Last year, gang violence, including at least four massacres, led to the deaths of more than 5,600 Haitians.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
• The Haitian is now tied with fellow striker Evan Conway as the team’s leading scorer with 10 goals.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
• The event series will run weekly during Haitian Heritage Month but will be held monthly following that.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
• Robert Taylor had the assist with a cross inside the box for the Haitian forward, who placed it past Pedro Gallese to tie the score.
  — Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025
• Nearby, hundreds of mostly African, Haitian, and South American migrants live in tent camps.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
• Basic goods including food and life-saving medication are dwindling; nearly 2 million Haitians are on the verge of famine.
  — Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2024
• The plaintiffs are asking the court to block the administration’s order, which puts Haitians at risk of being returned to a country overrun by deadly gangs.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
• Many of these messages are in response to the increasingly dire news in the press, some of which echoes what many of us in the global Haitian diaspora hear from our family and friends.
  — Edwidge Danticat, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
• Throughout the ride and the queue, Disneyland park goers will hear everything from Zydeco to Haitian Tara.
  — Megan Dubois, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• Making matters worse, nine in 10 Haitians go all day without eating in what has been described as one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2025
• And while the specter of Mach’s Haitian ancestry is never far from reach, Pray for Haiti also plays like his witty facsimile of a rap star.
  — Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
• The top nationalities of those who were processed with an appointment made through the app were Venezuelan, Cuban, Mexican and Haitian.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
• This was during the years of the Haitian Revolution, which made the future of slavery on sugar plantations in the Caribbean look uncertain.
  — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
• However, one person can have more than one encounter, and the figure does not include Haitians who arrived on Florida's and Puerto Rico's shores.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes The Miami Herald (tns), arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• Despite the fact that both Haiti rulers were veterans of the Haitian Revolution, the French had never quite given up on reconquering their former colony.
  — Marlene L. Daut, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025
• While Haitians are increasingly frustrated by the escalation in violence by armed gangs, concerns are growing among human rights groups that the law enforcement itself is failing to police its officers.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
• With two locations in North Miami, 1804 Haitian Pizza combines Haitian griot and oxtail with pizza in a popular way.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
• Faced with this massive exodus, the Carter administration announced the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program that same year, granting special status to those who came during this exodus.
  — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• Picault, a Haitian American who spent his teen years in Miami, and Cremaschi, a Key Biscayne native, are both fan favorites at Chase Stadium.
  — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2025