How to Use Shona in a Sentence

Shona

noun

• Jones had been at the group home for just over two months, her mother, Shona Garner-White, said at the news conference.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2023-12-01
• Newton was born and raised in England and is the daughter of a Zimbabwean mother from the Shona tribe and a British father.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 2024-11-22
• Similarly bilharzia in my mother tongue – Shona from Zimbabwe – is called the disease of cognitive function.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 2024-05-09
• The music is the result of cross-culture dialogue: traditional Shona melodies, backgrounded by then contemporary rock grooves.
  — The New Yorker, 2024-04-12
• Local labels like Shona Joy and Dissh have released drop waist dresses that feature the flirty hemline, in midi and mini lengths respectively.
  — Angela Law, refinery29.com, 2024-06-25
• That thought prompted another: The book should be translated into Shona – one of Zimbabwe’s dominant languages.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-07-27
• James Price and Shona Heath’s sets are marvels of invention that treat the idea of period as a sandbox in which to run riot with a full range of architectural and decorative styles.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-09-01
• That film is rooted in the mythology of the Shona culture and follows a young girl who must find a mythical city where elder spirits can teach her how to summon rain, in order to rescue her community from a deadly drought.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 2023-10-11
• That film won four Oscars, including a second best actress prize for Stone, and best achievement in production design for James Price, Shona Heath and Zsusza Mihalek, costume design for Holly Waddington and makeup and hairstyling for Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025