How to Use Hispanic in a Sentence

Hispanic

adjective
  • Noel is described as Hispanic with brown eyes and black hair.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 2023-03-27
  • White girls were most likely to be ready, and Hispanic boys least likely.
    Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, 2025-05-31
  • Peach nectar can be found either with the Latin/Hispanic foods or on the juice aisle.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 2025-04-11
  • The man was described as a Hispanic man wearing blue jeans and a black t-shirt, Jinks said.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Police describe the teens as both Hispanic and around 18 years old.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 2023-06-24
  • The same percentage of Hispanic mothers said this as well.
    Tayla Mahmud, Fortune, 2023-06-30
  • More than half of Hispanic women said sexism is a problem in the workplace.
    Stella Chavez, NPR, 2024-05-15
  • Many Black and Hispanic men have turned against Democrats — and toward Trump.
    Axios, 2024-07-13
  • Among White and Hispanic respondents, that was the view by 3-1.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
  • White folks are about three times more likely to inherit than their Black, Hispanic or Asian friends.
    Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2023-11-10
  • Twenty-eight were Black, five were white, one was Hispanic and the race of three victims had not been publicly released.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 2023-06-04
  • People go through the stats, particularly the Black and Hispanic men do not show up to vote for her.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2024-11-04
  • Back then, East Austin was a Black and Hispanic neighborhood.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2025-07-08
  • The first girl was raised among a family of eight in a poor, largely Hispanic town in Texas and became pregnant in high school.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2024-02-29
  • The Hispanic homeownership rate of 51.1% was also a record high for that group.
    Anna Bahney, CNN, 2024-02-20
  • At the time the victim was described to be a woman between 35 and 55 years old, and Hispanic or white.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 2023-08-03
  • The shop manager, who declined to give his name, told us that 90% of the clientele are Hispanic and many are tourists that come based on word of mouth.
    Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 2023-10-30
  • The university also ranked high on a new list measuring schools that best serve Hispanic students, the school’s statement said.
    Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Claims that these maps, which establish four new majority-Hispanic districts, are discriminatory are absurd.
    Andrew Stanton mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • On the strongly Hispanic south side of Milwaukee, both public and private schools have operated amid tensions and worries from parents, children and educators about what will happen.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Demographic shifts mean fewer high school graduates overall, though the number of Hispanic graduates is projected to rise steadily through 2040.
    Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The Tennessean crafted a map showing where the traffic stops took place using data from an analysis of dispatch reports, which were census areas with high percentages of Hispanic or Latino residents.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • An obstetric calculator factored in race and ethnicity in ways that increased unnecessary Cesarean sections among Black and Hispanic women.
    Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The victim, whose remains were badly decomposed, had no ID on her and is believed to be Black or Hispanic and between 20 to 30 years old and 4-feet-5 to 5-feet-2.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So far in its history, the Fed has had 12 women, five Black people and one Hispanic person serve on its board, according to the Congressional Research Service.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his 20s or early 30s, with a height of 5’10 and a skinny to medium build, according to a press release from the San Jose Police Department.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
  • According to Texas’s new maps, the districts represented by Cuellar and Gonzalez, which are overwhelmingly Hispanic, will become slightly more favorable to the GOP.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Looking to boost Hispanic voter engagement, in the spring of the election year, Obama ignored Congress and took a constitutionally obtuse executive action shielding immigrants who came to the United States illegally as minors from deportation.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But, with approximately 80% of the Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 student body being Hispanic, some members of the Board of Education have concerns about sending the students on a trip to Texas.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Junior Queen Emilie Hudson, 17, and Young Miss Macy Naulty, 12, said Heritage Night celebrates the Hispanic and Native American heritages along with Ramona’s heritage and culture.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025

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