How to Use Pan-American in a Sentence

Pan-American

adjective

• For this reason, multiple attempts to complete the Pan-American Highway through Darién have petered out.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2017
• Opening ceremonies of the Pan-American Games — hosted for the first time in the United States — took place at Soldier Field.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
• But the Pan-American Highway doesn't quite cross all of those 17,848 kilometers (11,090 miles).
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2017
• The Pan-American message of Bad Bunny’s set resonates with Guerrero’s own programming in Millennium Park.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Dudamel’s embrace aligns Ives’s Second with a Pan-American history of orchestral music infused with popular and traditional tunes.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
• Inside that costume was Piper Randolph, a first-team All-American junior fencer who excelled in the Pan-American Cadet Championships.
  — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
• Since Alaska's Dalton Highway opened in 1974, the Pan-American Highway has stretched all the way north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2017
• Second, mainstream perspectives disconnect Black liberation struggles from Pan-African and Pan-American efforts to hold the beneficiaries of anti-Black oppression accountable for their unearned gains, regardless of national boundaries.
  — Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
• In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison’s government hosted a delegation of leaders from Latin America on a 5,000-mile rail tour around the American heartland as a curtain raiser for the first Pan-American conference.
  — Nicholas J. Cull, The Conversation, 28 May 2025